This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Thursday 16 April 2009
A Load of Pollacks
I have simmered over the story that Sainsburys is reportedly trying to sell more Pollack, in place of more expensive and endangered Cod, by replacing its cringe-making name with 'Colin' (http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/896495/Sainsburys-rebrands-Pollack-Colin/). Firstly, Colin is French for Hake (a completely different fish) or the American partridge, so the replacement name is not, in any sense, appropriate. Secondly, can people be really so squeamish about using the right name for the right organism (isn't a piece of Cod a bit rude)?
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2 comments:
Nice plate of fish'n'chips, Prof. I heard that one in the news - my sentiments exactly. Pollacks to Sainsbury's. Besides which, the name change could stir an outbreak of attacks with salt and vinegar on people called Colin.
What you might call 'a salt and battery'
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