Posted on 07/10/2023 5:41:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK...............
CRABSTICKS are adored by seafood lovers across the nation, but people have vowed never to eat them again after learning what they're actually made from.
A social media user shared a video of the process on Reddit, which shows how a Thailand-based factory creates the fishy sticks.
People are only just realising what crab sticks are madeCredit: Reddit/rco888
Crabsticks go through a whole host of processes before arriving on supermarket shelvesCredit: Reddit/rco888
And many have been left horrified by the reality - with people branding them "fish hot dogs."
The savoury snack begins its journey as a grey slab of frozen fish meat, before making its way into a machine where it's crushed.
Next, it moves onto a second machine where other ingredients are added - including salt and egg white.
The fishy mix is then blended with several ice cubes, before factory workers add vegetable oil and sugars.
It's then placed through a tube which turns it into a slimy grey paste, before being rolled into a rectangle strip.
At this point, it's encased in the orange coating that were's all familiar with.
And for anyone wondering, the distinctive coating is naturally pigmented surimi - a paste made from fish or other meat.
Finally, the crabsticks are wrapped in plastic and frozen, before being boxed up by employees and finding their way onto supermarket shelves.
The video, which was allegedly taken from inside the world's largest crabstick factory, was flooded with comments from horrified social media users.
"Hot dogs of the sea," wrote one.
A second penned: "The only ingredient I could identify was the ice."
A third quipped: "Everything ok hun? You've hardly touched your grey" due to the colour of the original paste."
Crabsticks start out in concrete-like blocksCredit: Reddit/rco888
Fake crab Ping!.................
Soylent green is purple. It’s PURPLE!
I eat hot dogs. I guess I can keep on eating fish paste. They are good chopped up into miso soup or ramen dishes.
Do you like fish sticks?
Once you get them to eat burgers made from grass clippings, they’ll eat anything.
Mrs. Paul’s!!
I have watched them unload inedible bluefish by the ton…
Bugs are better — they’re crunchy!
I buy them at Costco and even the cats like them ,LOL
So it’s not crab but it is fish, salt, egg white, veg oil and sugars. So what?
Never liked em
“I eat hot dogs. I guess I can keep on eating fish paste.”
Yep, no worse than many sausages and ground meats. Store bought Chorizo is great stuff and it is mostly Lymph Glands...
Gay Fish, Yo!
um.. so... it is fish.
I dont get the outrage here.
One fish, two fish,
Red fish, Blue fish................
There’s no ‘crab’ in crabsticks, like there’s no ‘dog’ in ‘hot dogs’...........................I don’t think.........
But it’s hard to get those pesky little shell pieces from between your teeth!...............
“So it’s not crab but it is fish, salt, egg white, veg oil and sugars. So what?”
Right on the front of the package it says “IMITATION CRAB”.
Yet they are surprised it is actually imitation crab?
Mass stupidity is now rampant.
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