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09-28-2009, 01:30 PM | #16 |
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Crabsticks are reshaped white fish flesh (surimi.)
Only half as tasty as crab, but if you put them in front of me on a buffet I can't speak for my actions. Never heard them called imitation crab meat, so we may be on different channels here. I would imagine that alligator corpses make alligator goods. And the meat goes into some form of food. Can't tell from the photo, but I guess the van was refrigerated. Still, I guess it's probably animal feed anyway - animals are usually killed and processed on site when it comes to human consumption. Slightly educated conjecture, feel free to correct me. With your alligator skin whip FWIW - alligator comes from el lagarto. The lizard in Spanish. But my ex and I heard the story from a Cuban (in Cuba, so not a big surprise.) For years we believed that the original name for an alligator was legga-TEUR. I prefer it still.
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09-28-2009, 01:46 PM | #17 |
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It's the same here SG, ground up/reformed white fish, usually pollock. It comes in different forms here, not just krab sticks. The chunk kind is used in seafood salad along with those sea-monkey sized shrimp. There's also fake scallop and fake lobster varieties.
Tastes ok to me unless it's heated. I hate it when they put it in chinese food. And I think gator is yummy but haven't had it in a very long time. A seafood restaurant in Paoli used to serve it...
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09-28-2009, 01:46 PM | #18 |
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Around here, I mostly see Louis Kemps imitation crab meat, which is mainly pollock.
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09-28-2009, 01:51 PM | #19 |
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Cheers for the info Jinx & Spex
Crabsticks below. Scale: about as long as a female index finger, but thicker: ETA - turns out the supermarkets call them seafood sticks now. Probably forced to be more accurate by the European Union. We still eat them because they're cheap. But it's a sad come-down for the 'rents - the East End of London used to be alive with seafood. Even I grew up in a time when seafood was sold in pubs by women with baskets - imagine an usherette or cigarette girl, but with cockles, mussels, whelks and crab claws. Or indeed outside them - a family member of ours had a seafood stall outside a pub. I nearly bought jellied eels the other day, only to come home with mussels and have Dad say he never liked them (eels, and well as mussels! though Mum says he used to like both and out of the two she has the better memory)
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09-28-2009, 03:02 PM | #20 |
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At least my curiosity is satisfied as to what those trucks were carrying. I'm always intrigued by large, lumpy, roped down objects on truck when they are covered by tarps and things. I want to pull them over and say, "What is it? What? Tell me!" but alas, I am left in the dark. Never would have suspected Doritos.
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09-28-2009, 04:15 PM | #21 |
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Question for BrianR: What's the strangest thing you had to haul?
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09-29-2009, 05:49 PM | #22 |
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Nice. You can never have too many Firesign Theater references, IMHO.
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