Little worm things in cod!

newlywed

Yuk and just read the other link and now feel somewhat queasy too!!

When crustaceans infested with Anisakis or Phocanema are eaten by a fish the larval worms are released into its stomach. They then bore through the stomach wall and eventually become encased in the guts or in the flesh of the host fish. The life cycle of the parasite is completed when an infested fish is eaten by a suitable marine mammal.

summerday

I so wish I had not read this thread. Such a shame as I love fish. I often buy trout that has already been smoked, do you think the worms etc will have been removed during this process?

(Maybe someone could just say yes anyway to make me feel better!)

black-saturn

Yes I would complain. It is very common to find a worm in fish but a supermarket like Sainsburys should have got rid of it before it was put on the shelf. Fishmongers are trained to get rid of anything like this.

black-saturn

saraht wrote:

I so wish I had not read this thread. Such a shame as I love fish. I often buy trout that has already been smoked, do you think the worms etc will have been removed during this process?

(Maybe someone could just say yes anyway to make me feel better!)

Yes of course they have

savedalot

Welshdan wrote:

I had a similar incident with Sainsburys. Bought some sugar snap peas on my lunch once. Sat there munching away at my PC talking to the girl @ the next desk and, i dont know why, but i opened the pod i was eating only to find that a fat, very alive caterpillar had beaten me to the peas! Complained to Sainsburys via the website and they gave me £15 back on my nectar card

Went on to split the rest of them open - found 3 more which was quite horrid!

Now I hesitate to post this but I always feel quite comforted to find a live caterpillar/greenfly/slug in vegetables.:rotfl: The reason? Simply that I feel if there's some live livestock it hasn't been sprayed, at least recently, with some deadly toxin. Wouldn't stop me complaining though if I found one. Well done, Welshdan, £15 compensation is brilliant!

I once found a shard of glass in a tin of Tesco's red salmon. Took it back and caused a fuss and got £5 compensation and more salmon. Opened that and guess what? Another shard of glass! Was so cross I phoned Trading Standards. Very nice lady there said put the shard in some vinegar and leave it for an hour or so and see if it dissolved, which it did proving it was not glass. Turns out it's something that occurs naturally in salmon. I was astounded, have never heard of it before or since. (Didn't take the refund back to Tesco, though!:rotfl: )

Agutka

Compensation from Sainsbury's?
Whenever I find something I take it back and get a refund of what I paid. No compensation, no new goods. They do not care that you went home, got grossed out, had to drive all the way back and queue (how do you spell that!) to get the money back, so you can spend it in their shop again! :mad:
I once got a lecture about eating my nectarines quickly after purchase (as in same day), even though the eat-by date was a week later, if I didn't want them rotting in my kitchen. I nearly threw the mouldy fruit at the woman. Then I got my refund, without so much as a sorry. The number of times I go into Sainsbury's and find my hand plunging into rotting mush when picking up fruit. At least Tescos seem sorry. For anything.

thriftlady_2

Agutka wrote:

queue (how do you spell that!)

exactly like that

Agutka

thriftlady wrote:

exactly like that

I went through a few variants before settling on that one!
Queue, queueing - I know I wanted to spell...erm... the act of standing in queue.

cha97michelle

it used to be my job as a student to take the worm out of the fish (at a fish and chip shop). it usually was a great big white one that ran down the spine of the fish.

I also used to make the fishcakes, the ones with the 2 slices of potato and fish in the middle. Now i can't eat these any more because i know i used to pick out the red worms, but i know many of my colleagues didn't.

I think if you look hard enough there are parasites everywhere, and you would never eat again. so its best to wash things, and either have a quick look, or don't bother, as we are riddled with parastites anyway so another one probably won't hurt.

GottaGetSortedOut

Yuk... OH wont eat Cod when we go out as he says it is a 'dirty' fish, eats rubbish etc