Pollock, and now increasingly Hake, a.k.a -new name applied to help fake people out about Hake- "Pacific Whiting". I kid you not.
The McDonald sandwich is supposed to have genuine snow crab(?) according to the article. How much and how much filler --- as much filler as they think they can get away with would be my guess. As long as it costs less than shook crab.
By “cheap whitefish” I was refering to hake, a cheap white (fleshed) fish - formerly a trash fish.
Surimi was invented when some of the guys I knew finally found a process in the early 1980s (AIR) that would firm up hake flesh which is otherwise a gooy mess.
Pollock is very simular to true cod and is a valuable fish, not used in surimi - a cheap plastisized, food-dyed molded goo before in is firmed up.
Oregon sucks.