On Monday night, intent on making Fish Soup, we raced into the Morrisons branch, in Chapel-en-le-Frith, to get some Fish Stock, this store is really too small to be a Morrisons, but does at least have a Fish Counter, obviously the place!
We seached in vain, they had several types of Beef Stock, Chicken Stock, and vegetable stock, but no fish stock.
In desperation we went to Tesco in Whaley Bridge, once descibed to me by a local as a “mean little store”, the fish counter here suggests they have more or less given up trying to sell fish (nobody actually cooks any more do they?) except mainly, the processed “fish finger” type, ( am I only person who has never actually never seen a fish that has any “fingers”). Not really expecting much luck here we found at least three type of Fish stock, with cubes, powder, and best of all liquid stock ( also loads of other choices, and even Pork stock.)
Is this odd or what, or is it a sinister plot to make us drive from Store to Store frantically trying to complete our shopping list?
Score 7 for Tesco and 3 for Morrisons (lack of “joined up thinking/products” – to put it into modern terms)