I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but my parcel from https://www.thefishsociety.co.uk/ arrived completely defrosted. Not just defrosted, not like they say it might be in the leaflet, but slightly warm. The horror.
In ROFers' experience do any of the normal supermarkets offer good-enough-for-sashimi/sushi frozen tuna and salmon that I could add to a normal shop and therefore receive still actually frozen, for less than the £70 gazillion that fishsoc tried to charge me ?
Thanks.
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fish is so wormy I don't know how you can face sushi
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You still planning to go to Japan ? Gonna need to get comfortable with a lot of food-related ick...
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Christ
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https://theupperscale.co.uk/
These guys are good if you are in London and they are h not abscenely expensive for the quality.
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who the fvck orders fish by post? that’s the maddest bastard thing I ever heard. Reminds me of Pinko saying he buys children’s clothes on line, the absolute maniac
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you can get good deals on frozen fish by post, but not from the fish society who are absolutely fooking extortianate.
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Reminds me of Pinko saying he buys children’s clothes on line
Wait - is Pinko Jayerz?
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Heh, yeah, it is a bit mad. Hence the q. re normal supermarkets.
I used FishSoc once before, stacking some discounts, and the quality was really good to be fair.
I've tried asking around for a decent local source but no joy so far.
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How many days of the year are sacrificed to sitting on the great white telephone shitting your soul into oblivion?
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Will let you know when I've tried the warmest of the salmon...
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Yeurrrrrgh
Huhhhhh
Yeaaarrkkkk
That you there eeyore
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Supermarket fishcounters in the UK are absolute dog turd compared to much of Europe. Morrisons has the best of them.
Have you tried ordering form your local fishmonger?
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"sushi grade" means nothing other that the fish has been flash frozen right?
i doubt there's any fish for sale in a UK supermarket that doesn't meet that criteria. maybe not farmed salmon as i'm not sure it's required for that.
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It's House at Pooh Corner, but not as AA Milne wrote it.
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Is there a smokery in your neck of the woods? They'll get salmon shipped overnight from Scotland straight after it has come out of the water and would probably be happy to sell you some before they smoke it.
If you're really hardcore some of them get deliveries of eels that are still alive.
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fresh fish straight out the water is the absolute last thing you want for making sushi unless you have an intestinal parasite kink
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Sushi grade means different things in different places, but yes flash frozen is most common to kill off the tapeworms and other nasties.
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Pancakes you might want to stop eating smoked salmon.
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Pretty much, I think.
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Upper scale now does nationwide. I think prices are fine for the quality.
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farmed salmon is not very good in itself and is about the most destructive to the environment of all farmed protein. amongst other things - destroying wild salmon stocks (sea lice and interbreeding), causing puffins and other sea birds to starve and undermining the whole marine ecosystem (using sand eel and other baitfish to make feed for farmed fish). UK (a Brexit win!) has banned the most destructive sand eel fishing where it can but possibly too late for critical mass of breeding stock - see Newfoundland Grand Banks cod.
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the recent stories about EU countries being extremely mad about the UK banning industrial sand eel fishing and bottom trawling are pretty interesting
raising disputes under the TCA because the UK is implementing EU laws they want to ignore
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https://theupperscale.co.uk/shop/sashimi-medley-salmon-tuna-sea-bass-sea-bream-skin-off-serves-4/
Looks great, but their non-London delivery service is 2 days, and the fish isn't frozen :(
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Pipers Farm do frozen meat that always arrives to me still frozen. They do a bit of fish too - may be worth checking out.
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Pipers Farm do frozen meat that always arrives to me still frozen. They do a bit of fish too - may be worth checking out.
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Well Unhygienix the Asterix fishmonger gets his fish by oxcart from Lutetia.
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If you have eaten wild salmon very difficult to go back to farmed as it seems so soft and weak. It’s like this from a lack of swimming.
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I ordered some kippers to my parents house last August. Due to the general shitness of the UK they took four days to arrive by snail mail.
They were a confronting sight in their vacuum sealed bag and unquestionably aromatic upon opening. However, I ate them anyway and I was fine.
YMMV.
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