• Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    This has been a problem for years. I remember there only really being repercussions if it was catfish after the product was described as “cod and chips”

    Biggest strictly speaking catfish is in fact a fish. And fish and chips, traditional or otherwise, isn’t particularly descriptive.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    We do need to vary the kinds of fish used, as long as it’s clear what you’re getting.

    (Wait, is this where “catfishing” comes from?)

  • flabberjabber@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Happy to have catfish, but it really depends on how it’s been handled, farmed or caught. If its not done right, it can taste earthy, almost moldy. A bit like cheap Bass.

    Done right though and it’s delicious and more than happy to eat it!

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      4 days ago

      As always, the problem isn’t that they are serving it, but that they are hiding it.

      I would happily eat a bean wrap, but you shouldn’t sell it as a steak wrap.

      • flabberjabber@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Absolutely yeah. But those encouraging us towards enshittification would prefer we not ask those questions.

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    Similar things happening in supermarkets (or probably have been happening for years). Fish fingers are rarely cod unless they explicitly say they are (and then who knows?). The old frozen battered cod is now in pretty mich the same packaging except just called “battered fish”. If people can’t tell the difference and - nutritionally - there’s little difference, does it matter?

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    4 days ago

    Catfish is garbage fish.

    I grew up with fish as a primary protein source and the only fish I never could like was catfish.