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Flying Dagger
27-04-2013
I bought a pack of their 2 extra large fish fillets in John Smiths beer batter. I've just took one out and when I've looked at the ingredients it says 54% fish EITHER Alaskan Pollock or Basa.To check which you have you have to look at the best before date and if there's a P after it you have Pollock or B it's Basa.Luckily mine is Pollock if it was Basa I would be taking it back. But I believe the problem is they are selling 2 different products and to all intents and purposes marketing them as the same thing. I reckon it's very underhand and shouldn't be allowed.
radioanorak
28-04-2013
What is wrong with Basa ?
The product is being sold as 2 extra large fish fillets
walterwhite
28-04-2013
Originally Posted by Flying Dagger:
“I bought a pack of their 2 extra large fish fillets in John Smiths beer batter. I've just took one out and when I've looked at the ingredients it says 54% fish EITHER Alaskan Pollock or Basa.To check which you have you have to look at the best before date and if there's a P after it you have Pollock or B it's Basa.Luckily mine is Pollock if it was Basa I would be taking it back. But I believe the problem is they are selling 2 different products and to all intents and purposes marketing them as the same thing. I reckon it's very underhand and shouldn't be allowed.”

They call them fish fillets and they are so they aren't being underhand at all. Basa is fine, what's your objections to it?
Flying Dagger
28-04-2013
Basa is tasteless and has a dubious background, being farmed in great numbers in the Mekong Delta, one the most polluted sea areas in the world. If I see it in a shop I no longer buy it.
The fact that it MAY be Basa is not my main gripe it is the fact that aren't distinguishing between 2 different products. They should be making it clearer what you are actually buying. I'm sure it's perfectly legal how it is labelled but I just feel it's a bit devious.
manickangaroo
28-04-2013
I've had both basa and alaskan pollock and they had a greyish colour. I only buy cod or haddock fillets.
walterwhite
29-04-2013
Originally Posted by Flying Dagger:
“Basa is tasteless and has a dubious background, being farmed in great numbers in the Mekong Delta, one the most polluted sea areas in the world. If I see it in a shop I no longer buy it.
The fact that it MAY be Basa is not my main gripe it is the fact that aren't distinguishing between 2 different products. They should be making it clearer what you are actually buying. I'm sure it's perfectly legal how it is labelled but I just feel it's a bit devious.”

The packet says 'fish' doesn't it? What exactly is wrong with that?
Yeah_Jackie
29-04-2013
Originally Posted by Flying Dagger:
“I bought a pack of their 2 extra large fish fillets in John Smiths beer batter. I've just took one out and when I've looked at the ingredients it says 54% fish EITHER Alaskan Pollock or Basa.To check which you have you have to look at the best before date and if there's a P after it you have Pollock or B it's Basa.Luckily mine is Pollock if it was Basa I would be taking it back. But I believe the problem is they are selling 2 different products and to all intents and purposes marketing them as the same thing. I reckon it's very underhand and shouldn't be allowed.”

I'd be more concerned that the extra large fish fillets are only 54% fish regardless of what type of fish it is. What exactly is the other 46% of the extra large fish fillets? Really what could it possibly be that accounts for almost half the ingredients of extra large fish fillets? They are barely legally being allowed to call them fish fillets at all.

I hate all of their products. I'm not sure any of it has ever been near the sea.
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