Tesco Fishmonger

The_Pixi

Nothanks wrote: »

Wow. 5 Pages.

This crazy crazy place.

Can I ask a serious, albeit off-topic question?

Of all the people who have added their voices to this thread (Myself included), did we all vote in the last general election?

Election turnout was poor, but we all felt strongly enough to join in, or fight against, one (apparently not particularly likeable) lady's crusade about fish from tesco!

Also, I'm appalled that the chap from earlier's wifebait joke wasn't more heartily praised. The joke being: whitebait are very small. And traditionally eaten whole. 1.5KG would be a large number of tiny fish, making it surreal for the poster to expect them to be skinned and gutted. A practice, I already mentioned which is not the norm...

Yeah, he told it better than me.

now that's a different joke, surely.

pauletruth

5 pages because someone has not the wits to descale and gut a fish. people have got too far away from their food.

The_Pixi

pauletruth wrote: »

5 pages because someone has not the wits to descale and gut a fish. people have got too far away from their food.

Oh! What farm to do you own / work on?

I'd love to come down and see you working the land. I guess food would taste better when you have seen it from birth to slaughterhouse, it must get on your nerves when people who know just a few things on how to prepare food act like they fully realise where food comes from and how its hard to produce.

I wish I had time to see it all the way through the process, but sadly that would be a full time occupation... a Farmer you might say? unfortunately I have a full time job, and don't think I can squeeze learning how to make / prepare every type of food known to man in to the spare time I do have, just so someone like you wouldn't look down on me.

Oh how I praise thee, by the way have you sold your farm subsidy rights away yet? how much did you make?

pauletruth

thanks for the comment. i do live on a farm. i know were my food comes from. i know how to prepare most animals from chickens through sheep to pigs. plus loads of fish.
we raise our own lamb and pork. we have just finished eating big and little pig. the next to go are a couple of sheep caled mr tumbness and mr wether.

how do you learn by giving it a go. not by throwing a wobbler and throwing a perfectly good fish away without even trying.
bass are usually sold whole with there guts in.
it dead easy to de scale a fish. get astrong knife using the blunt side scrape it the wrong way up the fish. do this over the sink.
next with a sharp knife find its pee poo hole with the knife tip pointed towards the fishes head slit it up its belly to just before its gills. next get a spoon or your finger and pull out there guts. wash the caverty and scrape of any membrane off the inside. cutting the head off just before the gills use the angle of the gills to guide you.
as said its not difficult.

yes we see them born and see them dead

pauletruth

fish preperation is not difficult and needs no wits to do.
i have never recieved or applied for any eu money strange you ask. i am quite amazed that you found your way to tesco.

The_Pixi

pauletruth wrote: »

thanks for the comment. i do live on a farm. i know were my food comes from. i know how to prepare most animals from chickens through sheep to pigs. plus loads of fish.
we raise our own lamb and pork. we have just finished eating big and little pig. the next to go are a couple of sheep caled mr tumbness and mr wether.

how do you learn by giving it a go. not by throwing a wobbler and throwing a perfectly good fish away without even trying.
bass are usually sold whole with there guts in.
it dead easy to de scale a fish. get astrong knife using the blunt side scrape it the wrong way up the fish. do this over the sink.
next with a sharp knife find its pee poo hole with the knife tip pointed towards the fishes head slit it up its belly to just before its gills. next get a spoon or your finger and pull out there guts. wash the caverty and scrape of any membrane off the inside. cutting the head off just before the gills use the angle of the gills to guide you.
as said its not difficult.

yes we see them born and see them dead

Oh you must have missed post 5

The_Pixi wrote: »

yes I had go at it, quite squishy but I just wasn't convinced I'd done the scales right or got out the bit from around the mouth correctly.

On you tube they used a scaling tool, I only had a knife so again I was just not sure it was right

Its OK, you Farm hands don't need to be able to read, just wash that cider down and judge

The_Pixi

pauletruth wrote: »

fish preperation is not difficult and needs no wits to do.
i have never recieved or applied for any eu money strange you ask. i am quite amazed that you found your way to tesco.

And yet not amazed I can get a computer, connect to the internet, register for this site, type out posts and reply to them.

Wow your level of amazement is spectacularly off, maybe you should leave the farm once in awhile

pauletruth

its nearly at the level of your amazement that fish have scales.
oddly i don't drink and strangly don't rant for 3 days over a fish.

The_Pixi

pauletruth wrote: »

its nearly at the level of your amazement that fish have scales.
oddly i don't drink and strangly don't rant for 3 days over a fish.

OOH, that doesn't work - well done though you gave it a good stab... OH wait whats that sound?

quick I think a fox is in your chicken coup! :rotfl:

pauletruth

my goodness your natural history is poor to. there are no foxs up here. at least a fox knows how to prepare its food.
have you calmed down yet dear or are you still wanting to hit someone for making you wait for a fish.
i suppose you would be concerned over all thos nasty organic bits. best stick to a small tin of salmon next time.
if your an example of what towns are turning people into i am glad not to be in one anymore.
oddly even when we did we new that fish had scales and guts.