I've heard they're good to eat, taste like scallops.
Is that really true? I don't know anyone to ask.
When my dad was a little boy, he lived in a land-locked state - and he was told that sea scallops and bay scallops were cut with little round cuuters, like cookie cutters, out of the "wings" of skates and rays.
I love scallops and will eat them just about any time they're on the menu. It never failed when we were eating out that he would tell me the "truth about scallops." Gag. I would show him scallop shells on the beach, even scallops with the roe attached (yummiest!) and he never completely believed me.
Sure would like to know if skate or ray meat ever was actually passed off as scallops anywhere on the face of the earth. (I don't think so.)
A man I knew lived in Florida and sold stingray as scallops. He, and his friends, had tools to cut scallop sized plugs from stingray. I've eaten stingray served as stingray. It was pretty good.
What taste like scallops, the sting-ray tails or the sting-ray?