All those excellent Young's products - and now this! (Young's Cod Steaks in a Parsley Sauce)

Member Name: i_am_joy

Product:	Young's Cod Steaks in a Parsley Sauce
Date:	05/10/09 (182 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: ----------

Disadvantages: Small piece of cod, bland flavour, awful parsley sauce

I am not a big fan of those boil in the bag fish meals that have been popular for so many years, but when I saw Young's had brought their own version out I decided to buy a box to try despite them being rather more expensive than other brands at almost £3 for a box of four.

Although Young's are my favourite brand when it comes to frozen fish products, I found these to be a disappointment and of extremely low quality in my opinion.

The cod piece is very small and as usual with these 'fish in sauce' meals it's cut into a perfect rectangle shape, therefore looking far too neat to resemble fresh fish. After cooking it was surprisingly flavourless with the robust taste of cod barely making itself known through the sauce, and it definitely wasn't the sauce which overpowered the fish as the sauce is honestly like dishwater and couldn't overpower a marshmallow!

The first thing I hated about the sauce was the appearance of it. All at once it manages to be thin, gloopy and sticky - not a pleasant accompaniment to my fish! It has a rather grey colour and the flecks of parsley don't look terribly fresh and are more like bits of wilted spinach than vibrant chopped parsley.

I can't say it tastes amazingly like parsley sauce either, it has a very milky flavour that the herbs don't seem able to penetrate and it does absolutely nothing to enhance the flavour of the cod. I also found there was rather too much sauce for the very small piece of cod so that when I tipped it all out onto my plate the fish sat like an island in a sea of appalling looking parsley sauce.

There were no bones or skin attached to any part of the cod, although this was merely a 'thank heavens for small mercies' moment as I'm quite sure the odd bone would not have spoilt my enjoyment of this fish in the slightest as there was very little enjoyment to begin with. Indeed, perhaps choking on a fish bone would have been preferable to continuing to eat this awful meal!

In actual fact I didn't eat it all. Despite it's very small size, the blandness of the fish soon made me put down my fork and scrape the remainder of the cod into my cat's bowl. Luckily he enjoyed it because there are another three of these ridiculously small and flavourless cod steaks that I intend to cook for my three spoilt moggies tomorrow.

Summary: This fish dish has absolutely no redeeming feature - avoid.