Half the seafood Walmart sells, frozen or canned, is from China.
Much as I love salmon and smoked baby clams, I do not trust Chinese salmon and baby clams.
American salmon is more than twice the price. American canned baby clams do not exist, as far as I can tell.
A guy at work is from China and he won’t eat anything that comes from China. Tells you something.
“American salmon is more than twice the price. American canned baby clams do not exist, as far as I can tell.”
_________________________________
I simply cannot find Baby Clams that are not sourced from China.
American Salmon is good. I cannot begin to explain to my beloved how badly I want some good Baby Clams. Sigh.
And it seems no matter the brand, anything to do with Oysters are the same way.
I asked my beloved, “...just where the hell are the American Mariners sending the products they get from the sea???”
To get US clams one needs to be near the sea. Clams are highly perishable, unless kept in flowing seawater. Canned clams are a low value clam, to be avoided, if one likes clams. Some markets carry live Little Neck clams from the Pacific North West as they have a better shelf life.
Never buy a fresh clam that is open, aka dead. Never buy any seafood anywhere that has a “fishy” odor. Fresh seafood smells very faintly of the salt ocean. Only buy flash frozen seafood.
Seafood on ice in the grocery store is not a good place to buy it. Grocery stores, by in large, have no idea how to keep and display seafood. Ice must be 26 deg and cover completely the seafood in a case, else it begins to rot.
There is no such thing as a baby clam. Clams so labeled are just regular clams graded small. Real baby clams are about 1/4-1/8” the size and thickness of your little finger’s nail.
Never ever buy farmed salmon, Chinese or otherwise - unless you enjoy healthy doses of antibiotics, growth hormones, red dye, and cuprous oxide, aka bottom paint. All Chinese salmon are farmed - there are no native runs of salmon in China.
If you want real seafood buy direct from the fisherman - many sell online. Else settle for products rotting and filled with chemicals.