Lobster rolls at eight San Diego sushi restaurants lacked a key ingredient: lobster

Los Angeles Times ^ | December 8, 2015 | Dana Littlefield

[EveningStar]

An investigation by the city attorney's office has led to misdemeanor convictions against eight sushi restaurants whose "lobster rolls" apparently lacked a key ingredient.

Investigators bought the rolls at a sampling of restaurants and then sent them to a laboratory for DNA testing. The results revealed that less-expensive seafood, including crawfish or pollock, had been substituted for lobster.

[concentric circles]

I guess I'll stick to getting my lobster fix with big chunks of beautiful, identifiable, mouth watering lobster at the Lobsta Truck

For the record, the investigation was conducted in August and September of 2014. The establishments have since corrected their advertising and menu descriptions. The restaurants were identified as:

Little Tokyo on Carmel Mountain Road;
Edamami Sushi & Roll on Santo Road;
Wonderful Sushi on Black Mountain Road;
Kim, Sun Young on Womble Road;
OB Sushi on Newport Avenue;
Riki Sushi on 30th Street;
Wonderful Sushi on University Avenue;
and RB Sushi 2 on El Cajon Boulevard.

[Hugin]

There’s no lobster in Shrimp with Lobster Sauce either. I don’t even know why it’s called that, except maybe the sauce was originally made for Lobster.

[W.]

Mother and my Aunt Sylvia took me along to the fish market in San Diego when I was 3. I can still instantly remember the smell, and this was in 1959. And, I love seafood, come to think of it, there’s half a bag of big shrimpies in the freezer.

[truth_seeker]

As for myself, I believe you are what you eat.

I eat often at El Pollo Loco.

[monkeyshine]

Robster

You made me splay Doctal Peppal are oval my scleen!

[kearnyirish2]

That sounds good; is freshwater seafood that much different?

[hal ogen]

Well...there might be dog meat in hotdogs.

[EveningStar]

Little Tokyo on Carmel Mountain Road
Edamami Sushi & Roll on Santo Road
Wonderful Sushi on Black Mountain Road;
Kim, Sun Young on Womble Road
OB Sushi on Newport Avenue
Riki Sushi on 30th Street
Wonderful Sushi on University Avenue
RB Sushi 2 on El Cajon Boulevard.

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Thank you.

[minnesota_bound]

Plus the sushi was not cooked!! : )

[sergeantdave]

” “So frowned he once, when in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Pollocks on the ice.”

- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, i “

That’s what I love about FR. I know I can always get a dollop of Shakespeare now and then. Now if you can add a bit of Poe’s Lenore some midnight, I will be eternally richer. :)

[chajin]

I know I can always get a dollop of Shakespeare now and then.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371905/posts?page=15#15

[ExCTCitizen]

Oops...I knew I forgot the important ingredient...forgive me...

[ExCTCitizen]

True...crab salad is Pollock...not crab....

[ExCTCitizen]

A Maine lobster (from New England or Canada) is the best...nothing like it...I hate Florida lobster...

[advertising guy]

Hope this thread lives for evah

this is all hilarious

[ExCTCitizen]

Jay Leno had a newspaper article and on the page was an ad for a Chinese Restaurant with an ad for a lost cat....Jay said”I hope it isn’t in the egg roll.”

[ExCTCitizen]

Are there Brownies in brownies???

[Yardstick]

Good point!

[Pelham]

“O Oysters, come and walk with us!”
The Walrus did beseech.
“A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,
Along the briny beach:
We cannot do with more than four,
To give a hand to each.”

[Pelham]

Some threads attract all the jokers, and this is one.

Which reminds me, I wonder where Laz is?