Restaurants Switching Out Advertised Fish For Cheaper Fish Finessing Customers

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straight up using fish shaped cookie cutter molds and packing them with canned tuna :heh:


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Not surprised at all...should be sued for false advertisement tho
What sucks is the average customer wouldn't be able to tell the difference, that unless you are a culinary expert. Unless you sent and paid for all of your dishes to be tested in a lab. It's a shame, and you're paying more for artificial ass fish.

But you can say that's the same for mostly all the foods we eat, unfortunately.
 

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Happens with scallops as well.

IDENTIFYING FAKE SCALLOPS

While you can’t always trust labels, you can trust your eyes and nose. Here are a few tips to help you decipher if scallops are authentic or fake.

*SIZE: Scallops from nature will vary in size and never have a perfect cylinder shape to them. Fake scallops have an identical circumference because they are made using a cookie cutter device. Also, if you see one edge thicker than the other, it’s either stingray or skate wings that taper greatly from one side to the other.

*TEXTURE: Genuine scallops have distinct grains or fibers running lengthwise, as the edible part of scallop meat serves as a muscle that holds the two scallop shells together. A fake scallop will have fewer fibers and appear more solid and dense.

*THICKNESS:
Look at the thickness and see if it’s the same on all sides. If it’s made from a stingray or skate, it will be thicker on one side because their wings taper greatly from one side to the other.

*SMELL: And lastly, do the sniff test. Scallops should not smell fishy. They normally give off a sweet, seaweed aroma. If it smells fishy, something fishy is going on (literally!)
 
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