Guitar Fish 
Electric Ray
Posted on 10/02/2017 11:25:31 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
Guitar Fish Electric Ray
Exacary!
Seafood’s not as well regulated as it should be...
from link:
In October, thousands of hungry seafood fans perused the offerings at the annual John’s Pass Seafood and Music Festival in Madeira Beach. Situated on Florida’s waterfront and boasting “the largest seafood selection ever,” it would be logical for the 35,000 attendees to assume the festival’s food was hauled from local waters.
Many vendors don’t even live in Florida, but rather travel around the country like carnival workers.
Mr. Paella had shrimp from Panama and mussels from Thailand. Sea Shore Seafood had shrimp and mussels from Chile and cod from Restaurant Depot, which gets fish from many countries. And the vendor at Miss Vi’s Cook-Up said it used basa, otherwise known as pangasius or Asian catfish, in its Caribbean seafood dishes. None of these claimed to be selling Florida seafood.
Of the 27 vendors counted, only eight claimed to serve some kind of Florida seafood. Florida’s Fine Food, the festival’s largest vendor, claimed to have grouper and Florida shrimp. Behind the stall, there were stacks of frozen farmed pangasius boxes from Vietnam and frozen shrimp from India. Florida’s Fine Food did not respond to messages.
Your love of bay scallops versus sea scallops shoots yours down.
Besides someone earlier disagreed (as I have) and you folded like a cheap suit. LOL yourself silly.
A coworker told me he worked in a restaurant that cut them out of Skate.
It was a bowling ally restaurant. LOL.
I called BS, but he insisted, I said, “pass”.
A local seafood distributor was indicted for selling false claimed fishes as something else..................
Sorry, dear, I wish I had a flying car but I don’t.
Try again.
Here in Tacoma, WA, Scallops are $9.99 a pound from Fred Myers. Lobster tails right next to them, shelled, are $8.99 a pound. I can do the math.
rwood
Well, darn, I sure do love them, but don’t know where I’ll find them today.
That’s quite an electrifying story. Couldn’t something like that give you a heart attack? Gracious!
Be safe out there. A simple day at the beach could be fatal.
Glad you’re OK. That has to be equivalent to the odds of getting hit by lightning.
i was a day early. Made fried scallops with roasted potatoes and spinach topped with bacon, ‘shrooms, and onions last night. roast tonight.
Well, at least i supplied some touristas with an amusing story to tell the folks back home!...............
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