[kearnyirish2]

I remember years ago someone describing to me how scallops were often just round sections punched out of rays’ “wings” (with something like a cookie-cutter). Never been much of a seafood fan; the food smells the same when it is fresh and a month old...

[Pelham]

” the food smells the same when it is fresh and a month old...”

You’re definitely going to the wrong joints for seafood.

[ErnBatavia]

I spent the bulk of my career in the seafood biz....some people would accuse our Japanese scallops of being "Shark Plugs" because they were more uniform in size and shape than eastern U.S. scallops

Back to subject at hand....we (Los Angeles based) had a San Francisco soup manufacturer who'd order ONE 30 pound box of slipper lobster meat - which is by far the cheapest and crappiest - because they were going to do a large run of Lobster Bisque.

[Smokin' Joe]

I have eaten both, ray (sliced) and scallop. The smaller rays are tasty, the big ones are less so and rubbery.