Whole fish OK?

LilElvis

AW618 said:

suki1964 said:

So you go "oh fiddly de dee" gut the the fish and away you go

I wouldn't, because I have no idea how to gut a fish.  So I would think I was entitled to a refund as what I had been sold was not what I asked for and was no use to me.  I wouldn't expect any compensation though.

Google, YouTube, Pinterest. 2 minutes research.

greyteam1959

Beat me to it.........

AW618

LilElvis said:

AW618 said:

suki1964 said:

So you go "oh fiddly de dee" gut the the fish and away you go

I wouldn't, because I have no idea how to gut a fish.  So I would think I was entitled to a refund as what I had been sold was not what I asked for and was no use to me.  I wouldn't expect any compensation though.

Google, YouTube, Pinterest. 2 minutes research.

But I don't want to know how.  I have no interest in doing it.  No reason why I should, is there?  So if someone sells me a  fish that needs gutting when I have asked for one that doesn't, they should refund me if asked.  I am under no obligation to do something I don't want to do, however easy you think it is.  If they thought everyone was happy doing it they wouldn't sell pre-gutted fish.

JJ_Egan

You have the right to not gut the fish and the right to your money back on this mistake .Its not a health hazard .

The store have offered reasonable compensation but you want a lot more compo .

askeym

The best way to descale is to cut a carrot crosswise so it has a blade and a point, then simply rub across. If you do it in the sink you can collect the scales after. If you've got a cat spoon out the guts, cook them and you'll have a contented !!!!!!.

askeym

How ridiculous, this site censored another name for a cat!

Takmon

MollyKz said:

I  purchased 3 trout from the fresh fish counter of my local Morrisons.  They were put in a "Cook in the Bag" container.  I was just about to cook them as they were but decided that I'd put some extras in with them - herbs etc. only to discover, when I opened the bag, that the fish had not been gutted! Not squeamish but the thought of a whole fish being opened up on the plate put us off dinner that night!! I contacted Morrisons and they offered me 5000 points (£5) compensation, which I rejected and they then offered 10,000 points.
I don't think this is acceptable as, apart from the cost of the ruined dinner, this was surely a health hazard?
I'd be interested to see what you think - am I over reacting? 
PS I don't have a problem gutting a fish - just not immediately before I serve dinner.

Well you obviously are squeamish if you are unable to gut fish before dinner and the thought of it put you both off dinner that night. Personally i would have found it annoying that i had to do extra preparation work due to their mistake and would have contacted them and expected a refund but i still would have prepared and eaten the fish so that it wasn't wasted.

I can never understand how some people are happy to eat animals but if they think about how they are killed and prepared somehow puts them off their food??? 

Takmon

AW618 said:

LilElvis said:

AW618 said:

suki1964 said:

So you go "oh fiddly de dee" gut the the fish and away you go

I wouldn't, because I have no idea how to gut a fish.  So I would think I was entitled to a refund as what I had been sold was not what I asked for and was no use to me.  I wouldn't expect any compensation though.

Google, YouTube, Pinterest. 2 minutes research.

But I don't want to know how.  I have no interest in doing it.  No reason why I should, is there?  So if someone sells me a  fish that needs gutting when I have asked for one that doesn't, they should refund me if asked.  I am under no obligation to do something I don't want to do, however easy you think it is.  If they thought everyone was happy doing it they wouldn't sell pre-gutted fish.

Well if you end up with a fish that needs gutting then it's worth spending a couple minutes watching a video and doing it so then you can actually eat it otherwise your just going to throw it away which is such a waste!. Obviously you would still expect a refund in that case but to just throw perfectly good food away because you are unwilling to prepare it is ridiculous.  

AW618

Takmon said:

Well if you end up with a fish that needs gutting then it's worth spending a couple minutes watching a video and doing it so then you can actually eat it otherwise your just going to throw it away which is such a waste!. Obviously you would still expect a refund in that case but to just throw perfectly good food away because you are unwilling to prepare it is ridiculous.  

No, it isn't worth that.  I don't want to do it, therefore I won't.  If I wanted chicken, opened the package and found it was fish I would throw the fish away, without any worry about "wasting the food".  I am not going to put myself out to salvage somebody else's mistake.  In reality I would just throw it away and not ask for a refund, because the time it would take me to go to the shop and ask for one is worth far more to me than the price of the fish, but if you did want to complain then good luck with complaining about something you have already eaten.  What would you plan to do, take back just the fish guts to prove they were in there?

cymruchris

MollyKz said:

I  purchased 3 trout from the fresh fish counter of my local Morrisons.  They were put in a "Cook in the Bag" container.  I was just about to cook them as they were but decided that I'd put some extras in with them - herbs etc. only to discover, when I opened the bag, that the fish had not been gutted! Not squeamish but the thought of a whole fish being opened up on the plate put us off dinner that night!! I contacted Morrisons and they offered me 5000 points (£5) compensation, which I rejected and they then offered 10,000 points.
I don't think this is acceptable as, apart from the cost of the ruined dinner, this was surely a health hazard?
I'd be interested to see what you think - am I over reacting? 
PS I don't have a problem gutting a fish - just not immediately before I serve dinner.

Was it a ready sealed bag that you picked up off the counter? Or did you order the three trout, and they put them in the (wrong) bag for you while you waited?