Posted on 12/12/2015 10:37:35 AM PST by EveningStar
"So frowned he once, when in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Pollocks on the ice."
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, i
I noticed that the article featured the names of the ‘heroic’ city attorneys that led this bold investigation, but didn’t bother to list the names of the offending restaurants.
Was the purpose to actually provide us with useful information to choose which restaurants provide quality products, or to convince us we need vast ever-vigilant bureaucracies to safeguard our delicate palates from the horrors of eating the wrong seafood?
Probably; I’m very suspicious of this stuff in my area because we have a lot of polluted waterways (with signs in three languages warning people not to eat the stuff) that always have people fishing in them. I understand fishing for sport, but too many of them are keeping their catch - and sometimes too much for one family to eat for a long time. I watch them using saltwater tackle for rivers, and realize they aren’t in it for sport...
I used to catch carp when I was younger (a nice fight), but you get sick of losing your rigs on shopping carts, tires & such (this is NJ).
There is a tremendous amount of lying in the fish business.
An honest Asian restaurant is rare. You never know what that mystery meat really is - beef, rat, dog? Fish - now there’s an even better place to rip the white eye off - is that cod, pollack, hake (surimi: crab, lobster), shark (dogfish)?
Stick to the stuff you can id like vegetables, rice, and shrimp.
Seafood fraud has a long history.
wait your eating lobotomized hamsters?
For anyone who has previously had the pleasure of eating lobster, it’s impossible to mistake the taste of fish for lobster. Lobster (from the very northeastern US and Canada) has a unique texture, density and taste. It’s also fairly expensive, so this restaurant was probably making a nice profit off of their little enterprise.
Back to subject at hand....we (Los Angeles based) had a San Francisco soup manufacturer who'd order ONE 30 pound box of slipper lobster meat - which is by far the cheapest and crappiest - because they were going to do a large run of Lobster Bisque.
Ha! and LOL.
Hate sushi - always have - especially after I saw a show about people who had contracted parasites from eating sushi - in California!
My local newspaper has started prominently listing health department restaurant closures - mostly for rat or roach infestation, one for “sewage discharge” whatever that means.
Every restaurant on that list was, is and has been either Chinese or Mexican - including a PF Chang’s (sewage discharge).
Think I’ll stick to home cooking...
I still haven’t found any authentic Welsh Rabbit.
Wha...? N... No... Nope of course not... Well, maybe... Ok I admit it, they are delicious
[[There is a tremendous amount of lying in the fish business.]]
Is this fish fresh?
Yes
http://www.menuism.com/restaurants/little-tokyo-san-diego-384870/images/199692#slide-2
Little Tokyo’s Lobster Roll in middle of middle row in picture. Wonder what they actually had in there.
The names of the restaurants, please.
Nice; I guess 1% lobster (even a crappy grade) makes it “lobster bisque”...
I remember reading a few years back in the WSJ that while shrimp prices were falling (due to simple supply/demand), restaurants weren’t lowering their prices because ignorant consumers were accustomed to paying a certain price and continued to do so. Incredible.
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