Strange, but true (apparently).

Gromit | 12:50 Mon 06th Apr 2009 | News

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Sainsbury's renames fish to spare embarrassment

The store has renamed Pollack as Colin because, it said, potential buyers were too embarrassed to ask for pollack, a cheap and plentiful cod substitute. After a marketing revamp by the designer Wayne Hemingway, and extensive market research, Sainsbury's hopes Colin will revitalise the market for the fish.

And no, this did not appear on April 1st.

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puddicat

get no brain knob to read this!!

sara3

my Colin can't believe his eyes!

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Kim A

I'm sorry, but what sort of simple-minded twerp would be too embarrassed to ask for pollack in a shop? What is WRONG with people? T**sers, the lot of them!

Lacmag2

What a load of colins.

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