Seafood mislabeling to be a crime

[PRBuzz]

Today Boston Globe, relentless pursuers of this problem!

[beamie]

There are some restaurants that will saute dogfish.....which from what I hear is actually quite pleasing to the pallet. I just wonder what they call it on the menu. And what do they charge...since the boat gets like 20 cents a pound.

[JackK]

I love escolar- complete bull #^&#^&#^&#^&!

Can't stand these two "journalists"- seems like their personal vendetta against Ming Tsai has gone out of control...

[Gary]

So are we going to see Patagonian tooth fish on the menu instead of Chilean sea bass? Another feelgood bs law to suck away tax dollars.
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[Piscator]

Originally Posted by JackK

I love escolar- complete bull #^&#^&#^&#^&!

Can't stand these two "journalists"- seems like their personal vendetta against Ming Tsai has gone out of control...

Ming Tsai's Butterfish at his “Blue Ginger” restaurant is one of the best tasting dishes I’ve ever had. You are right, they have some kind of vendetta against him. See his response to the Globe:

Ming's Response to the Globe — Ming Tsai

[Sea Flat]

Originally Posted by beamie

There are some restaurants that will saute dogfish.....which from what I hear is actually quite pleasing to the pallet. I just wonder what they call it on the menu. And what do they charge...since the boat gets like 20 cents a pound.

In England they call it Fish and Chips,

[5/0]

Mmmmmm nothing taste better than a great piece of a$$
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[Nebe]

How about selling calimari to your customers, but instead you serve them hog rectum. There was a great story about this on NPR last week.
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[Nebe]

'Imitation Calamari' Investigated By 'This American Life,' Suggested To Have Dubious, Pork-Based Origin
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[MakoMike]

Escolar is called "white tuna" in about 99% of the sushi bars in the U.S. Who do you think they're kidding? What right does a state have to ban a food that is not poisonous? If they are going to do that they should also bad the sale of nuts. Nuts are much more of a danger to more of our population than escolar.

[Rob Rockcrawler]

I heard the hog rectum thing too, hilarious.

[5/0]

Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler

I heard the hog rectum thing too, hilarious.

Like i said nuttin beats a great piece of a$$!!!
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[Nebe]

Rusty trombone fra diavlo
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[Strider]

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[Slingah]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Rusty trombone fra diavlo
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good one

[MAKAI]

. Nuts are much more of a danger to more of our population than escolar.[/QUOTE]

I agree. We should round up all the "nuts" and put them back behind the brick and ivy walls of the asylums. Where they belong, medicated like zombies.
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[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by MAKAI

. Nuts are much more of a danger to more of our population than escolar.

I agree. We should round up all the "nuts" and put them back behind the brick and ivy walls of the asylums in Washington DC. Where they belong, medicated like zombies.
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[Steve K]

I do have a problem with sushi bars calling escolar "white tuna." It is totally misleading and most people have no idea that eating too much of it has the same effect as eating olestra. It also should not be priced the same as chu-toro. I have a friend who is a Japanese sushi chef and he will not serve it.

Funny story - a friend of mine went to a wedding where escolar was served. His wife ate it and spent much of the night in the bathroom. The funny part is that the bride's father was such a jerk that the chef served it in order to get back at him.

[Nebe]

Whoa!
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[spence]

Originally Posted by Steve K

I do have a problem with sushi bars calling escolar "white tuna." It is totally misleading and most people have no idea that eating too much of it has the same effect as eating olestra.

Wow...

Escolar's wax ester content can cause keriorrhea (Greek: flow of wax), gempylotoxism or gempylid fish poisoning.[3] Keriorrhea is similar to diarrhea, only the body will expel yellowish-orange drops of oil instead of liquid bowel movements. Some individuals suffering from escolar-induced keriorrhea also report other digestive issues, including stomach cramps, diarrhea, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and anal leakage; onset may occur between 30 minutes and 36 hours following consumption.[4] This condition may also be referred to as steatorrhea.

-spence

[J_T_R]

Anyone ever been to the Kam Man in Quincy? Take a look around there and eating "imitation calamari" will be a walk in the park.

Pig uterus, with ovaries, anyone? Or perhaps ox shlong interests you?

[MAKAI]

I live in Quincy.
Road kill doesn't last long. Yum yum eatem up !!
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[JackK]

Just FYI keriorrhea occurs when mass quantities (IE, 6oz (wiki)... a STEAK) of escolar is consumed. Normal sushi servings are a fraction of that and shouldn't cause it.

[MAKAI]

The other name for that fish is Snake Mackerel

[Dick Durand]

Not so much a matter of mislabeling, but earlier this week I came upon a fish called "swai" in a buffet at a Todd English reataurant. Not knowing what it was, I refrained from eating it. Upon returning home, I googled "swai" and learned that it was a Southeast Asian type of catfish. While some may be farm raised in the western hemisphere, I suspect most is imported from the East. Frankly, I have no qualms about passing up the swai, as it was probably harvested from somewhere in the Mekong Delta, where water quality is suspect, to say the least.

[Typhoon]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^& Durand

Not so much a matter of mislabeling, but earlier this week I came upon a fish called "swai" in a buffet at a Todd English reataurant. Not knowing what it was, I refrained from eating it. Upon returning home, I googled "swai" and learned that it was a Southeast Asian type of catfish. While some may be farm raised in the western hemisphere, I suspect most is imported from the East. Frankly, I have no qualms about passing up the swai, as it was probably harvested from somewhere in the Mekong Delta, where water quality is suspect, to say the least.

As many of you know I'm in the seafood business. Swai is one of those fish I would stay FAR away from.

[MAKAI]

You couldn't pay me to eat Asian farm raised shrimp.
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[Typhoon]

Originally Posted by MAKAI

You couldn't pay me to eat Asian farm raised shrimp.
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asian farm raised shrimp are like smoking cigars.

I know the damage I'm doing to myself when I eat them. They're just so damn good.

The sh1t they treated those with is scary.

[Rob Rockcrawler]

My sister told me a tale of being in china and seeing a shrimp farm beneath a chiekn coop? i dont know if it was true or now. I dont eat farm raised shrimp knowingly. I know they are sometimes mislabed as well. I was at shaws a few weeks ago and in the seafood case they had wild domestic shrimp and i wanted a pound of them. Well they didnt have a pound so she went over to the frozen shrimp section and got a 2 lb bag and was going to open it up and give me half. All of those shrimp were farm raised from Asia. I pointed out that fact and she said "that is what we always do"...

[Nebe]

That's bull#^&#^&#^&#^&
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