Posted on 07/10/2023 5:41:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
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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
Are there snowflakes that really thought they had crab in them?
Useful protein.
“I have watched them unload inedible bluefish by the ton”
Blues are strongly flavored but nowhere near inedible. You may be thinking of Menhaden (aka Mossbunker, Bunker), a prolific forage fish that is definitely inedible.
Try Bluefish broiled with garlic breadcrumbs and lemon.
That’s Po-lock, not Pollock!
Fish jokes?
Pretty much what they are.
So treat them the same way. Nice for a treat, do not live on them.
Put eyes and a mouth on that thing and you have Jabba the Hutt (sp).
If that were still true I would still eat them.
I was a relatively early adopter in the US. In the early 70s the product sold here in the US looked more like that shown in the first picture. It was a sort of ribbed fish meat paper rolled up to create texture and was made of pollock.
Over the years the texturing disappeared and most products are a mealy extruded fish wad. The sugar was swapped out for one of the non-nutritive toxins. Then much of the fish was replaced by potato starch and a bunch of different aquatic life was added meaning you never knew what flavor you were buying.
It was no longer the enjoyable snack and when you cooked with it you could convince your palate was the real thing if you wanted to. Now its a slimy coated mealy potato dumpling that tastes little better than the floating carcass along the bank smells.
If one of you do have a chance to get back to the 70s or early 80s , please bring some of the real stuff back for me too.
Snips and snails and Hagfish entrails.
That’s what crab sticks are made of.
Plus HFCS, spices & artificial flavorings and color, and sometimes live parasite eggs.
And that’s what crab sticks are made of.
Big whoop. The Japanese invented faux crab sticks, called it ‘surimi.’ It’s been public knowledge since forever that it’s usually made from Alaskan pollock, which is very good fish in its own right.
“That’s because stupidity is no longer fatal. The stupids now survive stupidity and breed at a faster pace than the rest of us.”
True.
“Or Hake which is worse.”
Both feed on Crabs. Probably why they have a Crab like flavor.
lol, That would be Polack rather than Pollock.
One time my grandmother was talking about someone who had colitis. I asked what it was and she said it is when you have bad diarra all the time. Lucey in the sky with diamonds was on the radio alot then. “A girl with colitis goes by...” I thought the Beatles were really weird!
Lol, I remember. One of those commonly misheard lyrics. It is actually “The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.” :)
I think it is a false rumor.
Ahh, you can have all of my calamari.🤭
Yeah, it is a rumor. I don’t like the texture of calamari myself. Too chewy. Honeycomb tripe in Menudo is about as chewy as I can handle. :)
I have, and smothered in Italian Dressing over the grill. I know what blues are and have tried to eat them a number of times. They are inedible.
Not that different from McD’s chicken nuggets.
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