Damn Tescos!

Went to Tesco today to buy a nice fat sea bass for dinner tomorrow. It
grieves me anyway, to be buying what the sea gives me for free.

Anyway, when I got there the only bass they had was a farmed one about the
size of a small trout.

No wonder so many people dont try these things...camn you imagine such a
minnow being sold on one of those superb french fish stalls??

Oh well, got lemon sole instead. And they werent exactly at the end of a
long life.

David

David
Tesco pride themselves on stocking local produce wherever they can.
I belong to a fly fishing syndicate and on site there is a trout farm which
supplies various other fisheries.
It could supply our local Tesco with very fresh, fine fish but the fish are
too big can you believe - thay only want 8 to 12 oz fish weighed after
gutting.
The trout farm is growing them on at that weight - not killing and selling
them.
I have another a freind who is a cherry grower who has supplied Tesco in
the past - and he got stuffed every year.
They keep his stock until it is on its sell be date and too late foe him to
sell on then reject it, that which they don't sell, and dock his payment
without any reference to him. They are Judge, Jury and Executioner..
He stopped supplying them and now makes more money that he ever did with
them..
The point, if there is one at all , is that whoever is breeding and
selling the bass to Tesco probably meets their specification quite quickly
(pan sized, fatty and tasteless) and needs their high volume business and
the business of others like them to stay in business themselves and whilst
they are being farmed at least those in the sea are being spared for our
more discerning brothers.(except the Spanish and French of course)
For anyone else interested in supplying to a major customer, unless you
are prepared to work hard, long hours and for a song forget it.. I should
know because I
am a buyer for a mulit-national and occasionaly my conscience pricks me for
some of the things I do to save a dime.
What do I do to ease my conscience - go fishing of course.

K



wrote in message
...
Went to Tesco today to buy a nice fat sea bass for dinner tomorrow. It
grieves me anyway, to be buying what the sea gives me for free.

Anyway, when I got there the only bass they had was a farmed one about the
size of a small trout.

No wonder so many people dont try these things...camn you imagine such a
minnow being sold on one of those superb french fish stalls??

Oh well, got lemon sole instead. And they werent exactly at the end of a
long life.

David

In message , Keith M
writes

Tesco pride themselves on stocking local produce wherever they can. I
belong to a fly fishing

When it comes to fish that is absolute rubbish, since when was Greece or
Turkey local to Tesco - that is where there farmed bass come from.

--
Matt - Dorset.
It only takes two-strokes to excite me (or a threesome :-))

"Keith M" wrote in message
...
David
Tesco pride themselves on stocking local produce wherever they can.
I belong to a fly fishing syndicate and on site there is a trout farm
which
supplies various other fisheries.
It could supply our local Tesco with very fresh, fine fish but the fish
are
too big can you believe - thay only want 8 to 12 oz fish weighed after
gutting.
The trout farm is growing them on at that weight - not killing and selling
them.
I have another a freind who is a cherry grower who has supplied Tesco
in
the past - and he got stuffed every year.
They keep his stock until it is on its sell be date and too late foe him
to
sell on then reject it, that which they don't sell, and dock his payment
without any reference to him. They are Judge, Jury and Executioner..
He stopped supplying them and now makes more money that he ever did with
them..
The point, if there is one at all , is that whoever is breeding and
selling the bass to Tesco probably meets their specification quite quickly
(pan sized, fatty and tasteless) and needs their high volume business and
the business of others like them to stay in business themselves and whilst
they are being farmed at least those in the sea are being spared for our
more discerning brothers.(except the Spanish and French of course)
For anyone else interested in supplying to a major customer, unless
you
are prepared to work hard, long hours and for a song forget it.. I should
know because I
am a buyer for a mulit-national and occasionaly my conscience pricks me
for
some of the things I do to save a dime.
What do I do to ease my conscience - go fishing of course.

K



wrote in message
...
Went to Tesco today to buy a nice fat sea bass for dinner tomorrow. It
grieves me anyway, to be buying what the sea gives me for free.

Anyway, when I got there the only bass they had was a farmed one about
the
size of a small trout.

No wonder so many people dont try these things...camn you imagine such a
minnow being sold on one of those superb french fish stalls??

Oh well, got lemon sole instead. And they werent exactly at the end of
a
long life.

David
Its not just supermarkets my farmer pal (who kindly lets me shoot his land)
grew potatoes for a certain crispy potato product manufacturer (ear who
would that be then?) he would send a trailer load of spuds halfway down the
country for processing and .......... no don't like it have em back- and he
gets to truck em back wrong colour moisture level you name it. Well let me
tell you I have fried a great many of these spuds and they were gorgeous and
better than any you could buy in a supermarket or chippy but what do you do
when you unexpectedly get 18 tons of potatoes returned make a loss is the
answer so over a brew we had a chat about alternative crops and now after
years of being arsed about he grows beans and I dont get free chipping spuds
awwww
Derek

On 22/2/05 3:24 pm, in article , "david"
wrote:

Went to Tesco today to buy a nice fat sea bass for dinner tomorrow. It
grieves me anyway, to be buying what the sea gives me for free.

Anyway, when I got there the only bass they had was a farmed one about the
size of a small trout.

No wonder so many people dont try these things...camn you imagine such a
minnow being sold on one of those superb french fish stalls??

Oh well, got lemon sole instead. And they werent exactly at the end of a
long life.

David


Plenty of other reasons to dam tescos even if it is nothing to do with
undersized fish. For a start they don't sell genuinely useful boxes of squid
for fishing with, as for the mackerel they actually do sell, it always looks
way too old to be any good for fishing, god knows why we eat it.

Ok they are a food shop, but were is the vision and imagination? 24 hour
bait shop would suite me fine when my local dealer has shut up shop for a
well earn't rest after the long hours.

They do in most European shops so why not Tescos?

George

In message , George Lee
writes

Plenty of other reasons to dam tescos even if it is nothing to do with
undersized fish. For a start they don't sell genuinely useful boxes of squid
for fishing with, as for the mackerel they actually do sell, it always looks
way too old to be any good for fishing, god knows why we eat it.

I've never seen fresh (really fresh) mackerel in a supermarket, so I
don't eat it. It's too soggy for bait, from the beach at least. The
blast frozen stuff from the tackle shop is far better quality; I wonder
why they don't sell that.

--
Steve Walker