[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.

[kearnyirish2]

Nice; I guess 1% lobster (even a crappy grade) makes it “lobster bisque”...

[kearnyirish2]

I remember reading a few years back in the WSJ that while shrimp prices were falling (due to simple supply/demand), restaurants weren’t lowering their prices because ignorant consumers were accustomed to paying a certain price and continued to do so. Incredible.