Comments on: Wild Salmon Fillets from Walmart are nasty! (are they even salmon?)

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:54:13 +0000

Stop shopping at WalMart altogether! I have NEVER gotten a piece of meat or fish there that was anything close in taste or texture to what it should be. I don’t know what kind of crazy lab they modify their food in, but it’s all in the name of profit. The WalMart corporation has been fleecing the American public for along time, and this is just one more example of their deceptive business practices. My family has learned to eat smaller portions of meats and fish, but we buy the real thing from a reliable source. It’s worth it to me to know that I am feeding my family quality, sustainably produced food.

By: may

may — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:56:34 +0000

look on page 15 and you’ll see these guys produce this crap
never ever ever eat “product of china” food

http://www.pwsac.com/PSPD.pdf

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:14:18 +0000

Sorry to hear your experiences with the brand have been so terrible. I usually buy this brand and have generally liked it pretty well. My only complaint is that I prefer to cook salmon with the skin on it and this brand doesn’t have the skin.

By: Rett

Rett — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:36:07 +0000

The last time I bought “salmon” at Sam’s Club, it was unidentifiable fish. It was the whole filet for $20.00 and was labeled “steelhead salmon trout”. Never heard of it but bought it anyway. When I put in the pan to grill, it was not the same salmon I had bought many times before at Sam’s Club. It was nasty just you all described here. I too want to know where to get good salmon. The main reason I signed up for a membership is to be able to buy this very delicious salmon. I want to know where did it go!

By: j

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:31:53 +0000

Just fell for the same low price crap that is not even close to salmon at all. If anybody has this junk in their freezer do your self a favor and use it in your garden. Don’t eat it. Not even close to salmon

By: Lala

Lala — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:30:21 +0000

Wow, I just finished eating a piece of this fish and UGH! I only ate it because my son was sweet enough to fix lunch for us and he kept thinking he fixed it wrong. And me, not being a salmon eater just thought it is the way salmon taste. I will never buy this again. I want to begin eating wild salmon for the vitamin D. Where can I get the good tasting wild salmon? I don’t care how much it costs!!!

By: Jay Garth Jr

Jay Garth Jr — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:46:18 +0000

Barf PS cont. I don’t think what is in my freezer is salmon at all. Should take it to the Zoo and let them test it .

By: Jay Garth Jr

Jay Garth Jr — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:38:50 +0000

I have purchased the exact brand item many times over the last 12 months. This recent purchase of the 1/2 fish ( same brand) that needs to be scaled , was splotchy colored and had no scales. The skin was thick and oily. I started looking online for an article on mutations and GM fish but arrived here and I will say that both individual wrapped Wild Salmon Fillets and the 1.75 lb (1/2 fish) are both awful. Just to make sure that my senses were not warped, I rounded up some wild animals that will not eat farm raised fish at all and they all nibbled at this fare.Red Flag ! This is conclusive proof that WalMart Brand Salmon has become most compromised and they may even be liable for false advertising IMO. I have eaten this product before but only recently something is quite different with the fish now. Barf

By: Jonny

Jonny — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:09:42 +0000

So I had purchased the whole fillet from walmart before and I swear it didn’t say that it was from china. I have had very good experience with these in the past. However,my walmart here in central texas changed to the “fishin” brand of fillets and it says clearly on the back its a product of china. As well as wild and all natural. It did have some sustainable harvesting council logo but it was not MSC. These “councils” are merely lobbyist groups created by the companies that sell this crap to make you feel good about buying it. The FDA does not have ANY regulations on packaging or content for stuff like this so the marketing people for the brands can put what ever they want on the package. Also the term “wild caught” is not regulated either. It most certainly not mean that this fish was swimming around a nice clean ocean when some guy that looks like the gortons fisherman snatched it up with a net and sold it to walmart. It may mean that these fish grew up in a pen in some nasty asian harbor with 500,000 other miserable fish and were fed some unknown feed made by some chinese chemist/car repairman. But because the fish were in actuall ocean water and not a tank, technically they can be called “wild caught”. Same goes for “free range”chicken.these terms are not regulated so their definition is foggy at best. Walmarts sale of tilapia,shrimp,crawfish and some other fish call “swai”all have a country of origin of china. The condition of the farms and other habitat that these and other products are raised in are completly UNREGULATED. No amount of omega 3′s is worth the risk you take when eating this trash.

By: SDW

SDW — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:53:07 +0000

I’m glad I found these posts. I just had exactly the same experience with “Fishin” Brand Salmon Filets from Aldi. We’ve been buying salmon there for a long time with no problems until they changed to this brand. (Unfortunately, we bought several packs.)

This bizarre product whatever it may be, cannot be 100% fish. In fact, when it’s cooked (good luck with that) it doesn’t even remotely look like fish. The center, which never would cook was slimy and watery, while the edges were sheer rubber. It didn’t look, smell, or taste like fish. Yes, it too was from China; I found the small print after reading this page. BTW, it wasn’t an isolated filet. I took several filets from a couple of the bags and they are all the same.