I once went to a restaurant that had fresh shrimp on the menu. Ordered the shrimp and one bite told me that they had been frozen. I called the manager to come over and asked him to explain why they were serving frozen shrimp when the menu said they used only fresh shrimp. He said, well, those were fresh shrimp when they were frozen, so they were still fresh when they were unfrozen and cooked. I think my next words were something like “Have you always been a complete idiot or do you just think your customers are idiots?”
If the seafood isn’t fresh, it most likely comes from somewhere in asia and I won’t eat it.
Same goes with frozen meat. It has a weird taste.
Even our local shrimp/seafood is fresh frozen or flash frozen so it will keep to get to the dock-vender-you.
Only certain months of the year will you get fresh shrimp/crab/fish.
Since we have the law here it is labled fresh or fresh frozen.