Poll: Is it Bal Tashchis to Throw Out the Fish Head?

mizle10

Wed, Sep 28 2022, 11:55 pm

No, it's not actually food that's meant to be eaten. Unless you regularly make fish head for supper, and then my answer would be yes:)

amother

Apple

Wed, Sep 28 2022, 11:57 pm

They get thrown out at the fish store on a daily basis. It's considered carcass.

amother

Darkblue

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:02 am

No. It accomplished its purpose on Rosh Hashana and now can be discarded.

Elfrida

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 1:58 am

I noticed a lot of people seem to have dumped it at the street cat feeding point.

singleagain

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 7:01 am

No... But the meat from the head doesn't taste different than the other meat. So if someone will eat it, then do.

ETA I voted other

Last edited by singleagain on Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

amother

Maize

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 10:26 am

If I didn't throw it would just sit and rot in my refrigerator. And believe me, I need that refrigerator space.

agreer

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:18 pm

I wanna hear from the 1 person who voted yes - WHY?

I think it's bal tashchis to have to pay for these heads. They used to be free!

amother

Obsidian

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:22 pm

If you use the flesh to make necklaces,
the eyes for earings,
the skin for a pocketbook, then it's a shaila.

amother

Mimosa

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:45 pm

We don't do that one but I know someone who freezes and reuses every year Smile

Chayalle

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:48 pm

amother Mimosa wrote:

We don't do that one but I know someone who freezes and reuses every year Smile

I was once shopping right before Pesach and met a woman (she did not appear frum) who told me that she reuses the lamb shank bone on the Seder Plate every year, and freezes it in between.

I was thoroughly grossed out, but this takes the cake. Fish wins over meat! Eww.....

amother

Alyssum

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:48 pm

amother Mimosa wrote:

We don't do that one but I know someone who freezes and reuses every year Smile

There’s only so long it can be outside without becoming contaminated with salmonella.

amother

Apple

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:49 pm

amother Mimosa wrote:

We don't do that one but I know someone who freezes and reuses every year Smile

sick

amother

Mimosa

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:50 pm

amother Alyssum wrote:

There’s only so long it can be outside without becoming contaminated with salmonella.

They keep it in the shrink wrap and don't defrost. I don't see why this is an issue.

amother

Alyssum

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 12:52 pm

amother Mimosa wrote:

They keep it in the shrink wrap and don't defrost. I don't see why this is an issue.

They just use it as a centerpiece? Isn’t the point to eat from it?
Also how does is it not deformed if they eat from it?
And how much fish is in there to put it away for so many years?

amother

Midnight

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 2:40 pm

no wayyy! ewww! gross! I needed a laugh today! thx!

this is the first year I didn't buy a (fresh!) fish head. Just went with the candied jelly fish and that's it. Its been 20 yrs and I just cant handle it anymore. Lol! I am gurgling with laughter imagining that thing in my freezer ALL YEAR! EVERY TIME I OPEN THE DOOR I'D SEE THOSE GOGGLY EYES!

amother

Apple

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 2:59 pm

amother Mimosa wrote:

They keep it in the shrink wrap and don't defrost. I don't see why this is an issue.

You know you're supposed to eat from it.....
Are they a non religious family that has a rosh hashana dinner?

amother

NeonBlue

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 3:08 pm

amother Apple wrote:

You know you're supposed to eat from it.....
Are they a non religious family that has a rosh hashana dinner?

My family never ate from it. Straight from the freezer to the table. My mother was too grossed out from it to even take it out of the container.

During the seuda, we would just point at it while saying the Yehi Ratzon, without Shem HaShem.

Lakewood yeshivish for reference.

ETA we did not reuse the same one from year to year.

Chayalle

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 3:11 pm

DH also says you can say the Yehi Ratzon just while looking at it, you don't have to actually eat from it.

(but eww of the day....)

amother

Silver

Thu, Sep 29 2022, 3:14 pm

amother Apple wrote:

You know you're supposed to eat from it.....
Are they a non religious family that has a rosh hashana dinner?

No I don’t need to eat it. Go ask your Rav