Boil In The Bag Cod In Parsley Sauce.

sandyRoe | 20:25 Sat 09th Nov 2024 | Food & Drink

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I remember there used to be a decent sized piece of cod in each portion.

I bought some the other day and the fish, no longer cod, was about the size of a fish finger without its breaded coating.

Is this an example of Wagon Wheel syndrome (things are smaller now than they used to be) or has the amount of fish been reduced?

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Canary42

Shrinkflation at work.

Hazlinny

It's not only cod in parsley sauce, Sandy .... everything seems to be smaller and costs more. The only biscuits I see staying the same size are Tunnocks wafers, etc.

douglas9401

And strangely enough, Tunnocks seem to manage to keep the price stable too.

Strokes chin and wonders, not for the first time if 'they' are all perpetrating a massive scam on top of the previous one where we all had to clap on a thursday or risk being outed as ungrateful.

Buenchico

UK cod stocks are severely depleted, meaning that any cod that processors can get hold of is likely to come the North East Arctic or Icelandic waters instead. That adds to the cost, meaning that cod is now quite an expensive fish (as any chip shop owner can testify to). So Young's, which seems to be almost the only firm still selling boil-in-the-bag fish in parsley sauce, has been forced to switch to using Alaskan pollock. (Many cafés and restaurants, such as those within Morrisons stores, have now done the same).

However Iceland are still using cod in their own-brand product:
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-2-cod-fillets-in-parsley-sauce-250g/23577.html

At least we longer have patronising/sexist ads for the stuff!