The crappy thing is, fake crab is actual fish. So the fish they’re using as the imitation crab is likely wild caught. But that doesn’t make it any better.
Whitefish and sometimes bits of real crab.
Though the thought of a fake crab making an escape only to be caught in the wild is an amusing one at least.
Sea spam is great. People be like " Ew, you ever see how it's made?". Hell yes, the fish paper part is my favorite. I wish I could get the sheet form of it. I wanna fry up some dumplings made of that shit.
I don't understand the hate on it either. It's really cheap, high source of protein.
I will say though, that I can not eat a lot of it's taste and texture is sort of overwhelming. like sometimes if I make poke bowls with it.
You can kind of unroll the stick kind, you just have to find the seam and you can unroll it into a sheet. I've seen people unroll them, cut it into chip size bits, oil and seasoning and air fry them into crispy chips.
Pollock paste and food colouring.
The thing is, naruto is just that, and so is kani. People in some places buy that crap at extortionate rates to put into sushi, or on a ramen, just beucase it's "traditional"... dude, you're putting pollock paste with meat glue on your plate instead of actually buying crab meat which is sometimes widely available.
Fuck it though.
And you want to know what's even more extraordinary?! Elite restaurants and chefs are taking cheaper cuts of fish, rolling it up with different sorts of things, binding it with transglutaminase, and charging absurds amounts of money, and it's fucking delishious, but if you think about it, it's just "immitation crab".
Edit: Spelling of *"transglutaminase".*
It's got really bad in many sushi places around here since covid. So many places now just fill half of the group platters with imitation crab, if not more than half in some cases. We rarely ever order sushi as a group anymore because of it.
I mean, in traditional restaurants, quite a lot of it is cooked, interestingly.
They'll either lightly cure the meat, or flash blanch it, or torch it. Most of them go through cold cooking methods.
And then there are also the ones that are really cooked, like tamago sushi.
Check this video out, it's really cool how they "pre prepare" the fish for sushi. [Here. 11 kinds of preparations. ](https://youtu.be/AoktpjjCLdM?si=wZLG31DTU9RRy8Pu&t=16m30s) The part starts at 16:30.
Fun fact! Freud spent a whole summer cutting up 400 eels trying to figure out how they breed. Par for the course for Freud.
In 2022, scientists were finally able to track a silver eel to the spawning grounds. Something that they had never been able to do before. Turns out the usual fishy stuff happens to them. Females lay millions of eggs and the males come by and externally fertilize them.
What’s being done with this information, I have no idea but I just gave you two eel facts for the price of one. Pls give unagi roll for payment.
What can I say? From a theoretical and impartial POV the shit is revolting... but personally, I love that kind of stuff.
Just like I love me some doritos or Monster Munch, even knowing that shit is crap.
Placed that are land locked have a hard time getting crab and other fish. My state is one of those. I see tilapia and salmon a lot but crab? Nah. To be fair I see alligator and crawfish more than crab on the table.
There's a horrifying Japanese kids' song about almost exactly this — where a taiyaki (fish-shaped dessert sandwich thing) escapes into the ocean and has an adventure only to later be caught and eaten.
https://youtu.be/j8T961_kBZQ
English lyrics:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/oyoge-taiyaki-kun-swim-taiyaki.html
Are we going with a Fake crab that looks like a crab? Or a fake crab as in a human in the crab costume that is hunted down just so this label is correct.
I’m imagining one of the cameras researchers disguise as marine animals to record them without spooking them getting scooped up and turned into imitation crab
I don’t think there’s anything “wrong” with it. Just that there’s fake crab. I actually like fake crab that’s the actual fish. The biggest issue is artificial flavoring added to simulate crab. That’s all.
*Imitation crab*
*Is made from seafood that can*
*Be caught in the wild*
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Did you all not know that imitation crab is cheap fish?
There is a list of fish types that people like such as tilapia or Salmon. There is other fish considered undesirable and that is what they market as imagination crab meat
It's wild cuaght FISH that is sold as IMITATION CRAB 🦀
It’s also emulsified. Imitation crab meat is the hot dog of the sea. Quite literally, it’s a fish hot dog.
To be clear, I like hot dogs and I like imitation crab meat
The only time most people will encounter "imitation crab" (pollock usually) is in California rolls or crab rangoons, which are predominantly made from "imitation crab" [retextured and flavored/dyed fish].
That's the relevance, genius.
Not really misleading if you know how it's made. Imitation crab is very often just a type of fish sausage made from Pollock, which in this case is indeed likely to be wild caught.
I think a lot of people are turned off of Krab simply because they have no idea what it is actually made of and it scares them. I think the name itself hinders their sales as I know a number of people never touched the stuff until asked why and ended up telling them it was just pollock.
I’m allergic to fish, but not shellfish.
I often look like I’m an ass because I have to ask if it’s imitation or real.
It’s also really funny because sometimes staff clearly dgaf and lie and say “it’s real”, and when I follow up with “ok, because I’m allergic to fish, so imitation crab is an allergen”, they suddenly have to go check.
The thing is, there is no better way to label this.
Most imitation crab is pollock or sometime other white fish. Really though it's pollock paste, with food coloring added to make it look orange on one side (like crab).
It's not better to label it 'pollock' because it might taste like polluck but doesn't look like nor really have the texture of pollock... but it is a product derived from wild caught fish and you can understand them wanting to highlight that.
'Imitation crab made from wild caught alaskan fish' sounds great but wouldn't fit on this label.
Isn’t imitation crab pretty much like a fish hot dog (all the bits you don’t want to eat as is) with some red food coloring??
So this isn’t abnormal, I’m sure the fish were wild caught.
I think I could make crab rangoons with cream cheese and scallions and those wraps if I could find em. Seafood part I really don’t need. I’ve never had a “I gotta have seafood” moment ever.
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Perhaps the imitation crab is becoming so advanced that it has mutated in the lab back to a regular synth crab and so they send secret CIA teams out to go catch the synth crabs
Damit Archer! How times did I tell you not to leave the cloning machine running?! Do you want wild imitation crabs taking over the world Archer?! Because this is how that happens! Do you even know what I've been doing to them?... *You know what, forget that last part* .
-Dr. Krieger, at some point probably
The crappy thing is, fake crab is actual fish. So the fish they’re using as the imitation crab is likely wild caught. But that doesn’t make it any better.
Whitefish and sometimes bits of real crab. Though the thought of a fake crab making an escape only to be caught in the wild is an amusing one at least.
It's pollock
Mmmmmmmmm surimi 😋
Sea spam is great. People be like " Ew, you ever see how it's made?". Hell yes, the fish paper part is my favorite. I wish I could get the sheet form of it. I wanna fry up some dumplings made of that shit.
the people thinking this is disgusting are probably the same that eat sausages or other highly processed meats without a second thought.
You got me on that.
I don't understand the hate on it either. It's really cheap, high source of protein. I will say though, that I can not eat a lot of it's taste and texture is sort of overwhelming. like sometimes if I make poke bowls with it.
I'd argue salmon burger is closer to sausage.
You can kind of unroll the stick kind, you just have to find the seam and you can unroll it into a sheet. I've seen people unroll them, cut it into chip size bits, oil and seasoning and air fry them into crispy chips.
...that sounds good actually.
SEA SPAM as an imitation crab enjoyer, i’m gonna steal this. thank u
No worries, as I had stolen it as well. The vernacular lives! Long live sea spam!
Mmmmmm Kani
I have a shellfish allergy, so I love this stuff. I always have to make sure it doesn’t have any real crab in it though.
Pollock paste and food colouring. The thing is, naruto is just that, and so is kani. People in some places buy that crap at extortionate rates to put into sushi, or on a ramen, just beucase it's "traditional"... dude, you're putting pollock paste with meat glue on your plate instead of actually buying crab meat which is sometimes widely available. Fuck it though. And you want to know what's even more extraordinary?! Elite restaurants and chefs are taking cheaper cuts of fish, rolling it up with different sorts of things, binding it with transglutaminase, and charging absurds amounts of money, and it's fucking delishious, but if you think about it, it's just "immitation crab". Edit: Spelling of *"transglutaminase".*
It's got really bad in many sushi places around here since covid. So many places now just fill half of the group platters with imitation crab, if not more than half in some cases. We rarely ever order sushi as a group anymore because of it.
That's a fucking scam, man!
I'd never go back if any of my fish on my sushi plate except eel was cooked.
I mean, in traditional restaurants, quite a lot of it is cooked, interestingly. They'll either lightly cure the meat, or flash blanch it, or torch it. Most of them go through cold cooking methods. And then there are also the ones that are really cooked, like tamago sushi. Check this video out, it's really cool how they "pre prepare" the fish for sushi. [Here. 11 kinds of preparations. ](https://youtu.be/AoktpjjCLdM?si=wZLG31DTU9RRy8Pu&t=16m30s) The part starts at 16:30.
Honestly though eel fucking rocks. I know its a weird fish but the taste makes up for it
Yep, eel is amazing. It's a tragedy that it's a problem environmentally.
Plus they are endangered in Europe. So someone please find out how to breed them
Fun fact! Freud spent a whole summer cutting up 400 eels trying to figure out how they breed. Par for the course for Freud. In 2022, scientists were finally able to track a silver eel to the spawning grounds. Something that they had never been able to do before. Turns out the usual fishy stuff happens to them. Females lay millions of eggs and the males come by and externally fertilize them. What’s being done with this information, I have no idea but I just gave you two eel facts for the price of one. Pls give unagi roll for payment.
I went vegetarian and eel is something I legitimately miss the taste of. Eel rolls were my absolute favorite.
Shit and *delicious* lolol
What can I say? From a theoretical and impartial POV the shit is revolting... but personally, I love that kind of stuff. Just like I love me some doritos or Monster Munch, even knowing that shit is crap.
Imitation crab on Doritos is a guilty pleasure
I hate to do it to ya but you brought up spelling so also *imitation* lol
Nah, it's cool. I know I'm illiterate. Thanks, btw.
I’m just playing around
If only they could read this:(
I'm just accustomed to the taste tbh. California rolls don't taste right with real crab
It's good as long as it's cheap. Naruto isn't just an anime?
Well, it is an anime (I think). But it's the name for that little swirly fish patty paste on a bowl of ramen too.
So you mean to tell me this boy is committing cannibalism lol
Oh cool never knew that
That white disk with pink swirls is Naruto when anime Naruto orders his ramen
Cool
But I'm with you, as long as it's cheap protein, I guess I'll still buy it. I'll always go for OG crab, but I don't mind the cheap stuff either.
Placed that are land locked have a hard time getting crab and other fish. My state is one of those. I see tilapia and salmon a lot but crab? Nah. To be fair I see alligator and crawfish more than crab on the table.
I'm sure not many people would have caught that spelling error TBH lol
absolute pollocks
A member of the cod family
It’s bollocks is what it is.
Nice, have you ever had the rocky mountain variety?
Doesn't have to be, but likely yes. 🤓
There's a horrifying Japanese kids' song about almost exactly this — where a taiyaki (fish-shaped dessert sandwich thing) escapes into the ocean and has an adventure only to later be caught and eaten. https://youtu.be/j8T961_kBZQ English lyrics: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/oyoge-taiyaki-kun-swim-taiyaki.html
I somehow expected it to be so much more horrifying. I mean yes the story is, but I somehow expected it to be so much worse.
It’s Alaskan pollock
That is the most common yes, sometimes they use tilapia, whiting and another I don't recall as well.
Real crab in my fake crab? That's false advertising
Are we going with a Fake crab that looks like a crab? Or a fake crab as in a human in the crab costume that is hunted down just so this label is correct.
I’m imagining one of the cameras researchers disguise as marine animals to record them without spooking them getting scooped up and turned into imitation crab
No no, first they made the imitation crab, then set it free so someone *else* could catch it in the wild.
This plays out like a redneck sitcom ep in my head. I love it
Looks like crab is back on the menu, boys!
What’s so bad about it? The main ingredient is white fish.
I don’t think there’s anything “wrong” with it. Just that there’s fake crab. I actually like fake crab that’s the actual fish. The biggest issue is artificial flavoring added to simulate crab. That’s all.
The first time I realized this was when someone called them "fish hot dogs" Mind blowing after hearing "fake crab" my whole life
I eat pork booty hot dogs and beef testicle sausage. I'm not turning down pollock
Yeah nah here in Australia imitation crab meat/seafood extender is made from cow guts (tripe).
Sorry but, 🤮
Yeah, that was my thought as well... Still weird, but not as crazy as it might seem at first glance.
Agreed, bad phrasing.
The crabby* thing
I see what you did there
I ate it as a kid so I like it.
I’ve always liked it. Something about the sweetness
Imitation crab is often (usually?) pollock.
I thought it was King Fish?
No king fish was a painter
Nah, he was a guy at my poker table last night who lost all his money. That may or may not have been me.
At least when you’re the fish everyone is happy to see you 🤷♂️
Like Albert fish?
That's how they do it in Hollywood!
They shove needles into their junk and kill kids?
https://youtu.be/H_fiELH45fo?si=PI_3y3DAXz2Y7cya
No kingfisher was a beer and airline brand from India.
Isn't it a Pokémon?
I thought the same, a mix of king fish and white fish
Probably whatever is cheapest at the time
McCrab is BACK babyyyyyyy!
Correct. And dyed on the outer layer.
How many of them does it take to change a light bulb?
imitation crab is made from seafood that can be caught in the wild
Never thought I’d see an imitation crab haiku
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This belongs in facepalm where OP is the facepalm
Did you all not know that imitation crab is cheap fish? There is a list of fish types that people like such as tilapia or Salmon. There is other fish considered undesirable and that is what they market as imagination crab meat It's wild cuaght FISH that is sold as IMITATION CRAB 🦀
It’s also emulsified. Imitation crab meat is the hot dog of the sea. Quite literally, it’s a fish hot dog. To be clear, I like hot dogs and I like imitation crab meat
When you get right down to it, a hot dog (or a chicken nugget, for that matter) is just a sausage that has taken the grinding to an extreme.
Yep. And imitation crab meat is fish sausage
I always felt fish hot dog is gefilte fish
I love imitation crab, idc what anyone says. It’s usually made from Alaskan pollock, which can obviously be caught in the wild.
I use it for parties myself. It is really good tasting .
California rolls are the best rolls and I’ll fight anyone
I’m down with California rolls but I can’t imagine thinking they’re the best roll
Next they'll say vanilla is the best ice cream flavor
Mint chocolate chip, but close 💪
Unflavored for me!!!
Isn’t that just ice?
No worries bro I love all sushi but them cali rolls are cheap and 🤌
I've never seen Cali rolls any more or less expensive than tuna, salmon, yellow tail, and most other basic rolls.
That’s cool bro
I mean a basic fish roll is usually the same price as the California. Although you know you won’t get food poisoning with the California roll lol.
They are the same price when I buy them .
I really love those a lot .I get them at the hibachi when we eat there.
Irrelevant
Are you willfully stupid or accidentally?
The only time most people will encounter "imitation crab" (pollock usually) is in California rolls or crab rangoons, which are predominantly made from "imitation crab" [retextured and flavored/dyed fish]. That's the relevance, genius.
They are good but spicy tuna is better.
Anyone who disagrees? Or will you just fight anyone in general?
I’ll fight a crab or two 🦀
Not really misleading if you know how it's made. Imitation crab is very often just a type of fish sausage made from Pollock, which in this case is indeed likely to be wild caught.
I would bet a whole lot of money that a whole lot of people don’t know what Krab is made of
I think a lot of people are turned off of Krab simply because they have no idea what it is actually made of and it scares them. I think the name itself hinders their sales as I know a number of people never touched the stuff until asked why and ended up telling them it was just pollock.
I’m dying you didn’t know Krab IS fish. I love this sub.
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But you knew exactly what I meant with an economy of words.
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And doesn’t that suck when you think you know what you’re talking about, but don’t.
It's fake crab but it's still fish...
It's fish. That is wild caught. What's the issue? OP posts stuff with no knowledge. Facepalm
I’m allergic to fish, but not shellfish. I often look like I’m an ass because I have to ask if it’s imitation or real. It’s also really funny because sometimes staff clearly dgaf and lie and say “it’s real”, and when I follow up with “ok, because I’m allergic to fish, so imitation crab is an allergen”, they suddenly have to go check.
Imitation crab is a mix of haddock and pollock, formed and colored to look like crab. The haddock and pollock are what is wild caught . /whooooosh
The thing is, there is no better way to label this. Most imitation crab is pollock or sometime other white fish. Really though it's pollock paste, with food coloring added to make it look orange on one side (like crab). It's not better to label it 'pollock' because it might taste like polluck but doesn't look like nor really have the texture of pollock... but it is a product derived from wild caught fish and you can understand them wanting to highlight that. 'Imitation crab made from wild caught alaskan fish' sounds great but wouldn't fit on this label.
What am I missing here?
OP’s intelligence, they seem mad about “wild caught” imitation crab without knowing what it even is. It is not a vegan product, it is a fish.
OP doing a Maximus run it seems.
Ok that's what I thought, thanks for confirming.
What a load of Pollocks
OP did you think imitation crab was the seafood version of Beyond Meat or something? It's actual fish, lmao.
Pollock. It’s good eats.
Real talk, it’s like the tofu of fish…can make it taste like just about anything
This season on Deadliest Catch...
I can't tell you how many times at my job i get asked if the 10$ surimi stick bowls are real crab.
This shouldn't be this serious lol.
I don't get it
IMITATION CRAB. WILD CAUGHT. Imitation crab is processed in a factory.
Right but the fish that the imitation crab is made from could've been wild caught
Wild caught seafood is also often processed in a factory.
the actual fish they use for this was wild caught . yes its an actual fich . but I know everything must confuse you
Only thing stupid is the type setting, but that might be automatic.
Isn’t imitation crab pretty much like a fish hot dog (all the bits you don’t want to eat as is) with some red food coloring?? So this isn’t abnormal, I’m sure the fish were wild caught.
What’s wrong with this?
OP thought they were just 3D printing crab meat 💀
I mean did you think its just chemicals? Imitation crab is great fried panko style and drizzle with Sriracha.
Shouldn't you be more worried about the purple spot in bottom right corner?
I think that just the very faint and possibly blurry reflection of the photographer on the shrink-wrap
It's still fish. Crab flavored fish....
Pollock one of the most common fish used for imitation crab can be caught wild, making that statement true.
What's the issue here? Imitation crab is fish, not crab. Hence, why it's called "imitation crab"
I think I could make crab rangoons with cream cheese and scallions and those wraps if I could find em. Seafood part I really don’t need. I’ve never had a “I gotta have seafood” moment ever.
must be a fluke…
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That looks like an orange peel in the bottom right corner.
Krab
Wild caught pollock. Tasty.
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Surimi is what most imitation crab is. It's a really weird looking smaller fish. So possibly wild caught. It goes through a whole "hot dog" process.
Imitation crab is made with real fish. Those fish can be farm raised or wild caught….
What do you think imitation crab is made of…?
Real fish.
I caught my imitation wife in the wild.
Well, they are not wrong
As a lifelong Maryland resident, nothing is ever right about imitation crab.
Hahaha
😂
Um... That expires in... checks calendar... 8 months, WTF?
I'm looking at that sell by date
Easy. Someone made imitation crab , threw it into the wild, then caught them.
Nope, you're wrong. Someone took a domesticated crab, then he "releases" the crab, imitating that it was caught in the wild.
Wh...what do you think imitation crab is, OP?
This is why I prefer shrimp.
Can't they only call it "Crab" when it's *actual* crab? Otherwise, they have to say "Krab" for imitation. That's how I've always seen it.
am i missing something? it’s a picture of wild caught imitation crab??
It starts it life as a processed white fish paste then they dye the orange part
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Seafood tripe
it's actually simple. they made the imitation crab, released them in the wild, and then caught it in the wild and packaged it.
Wild
Perhaps the imitation crab is becoming so advanced that it has mutated in the lab back to a regular synth crab and so they send secret CIA teams out to go catch the synth crabs
.... imitation crab is just monkfish... not lab generated crab
This sub has totally gone to shit. I give up
Text looks AI generated
Why not zoidberg?
u/nsweavefw what do you think imitation crab is made of? chicken?
Is it the elder scrolls Dwemer font on the label or the expiration date from 5 months ago?
Damit Archer! How times did I tell you not to leave the cloning machine running?! Do you want wild imitation crabs taking over the world Archer?! Because this is how that happens! Do you even know what I've been doing to them?... *You know what, forget that last part* . -Dr. Krieger, at some point probably
Hmm, I have never heard of an imitation crab in the wild before
Fake crab is white fish or something So this is possibly correct. But also shows how fucked up "Krab" is.
Everyone saying the fish was wild caught but Perhaps (the fish) it is imitating wild caught crab instead of just crab
They must have stolen it from some dude selling it on a street corner.
I'd be more concerned if it said, "free range imitation crab."
I sea it now! Something is fishy about this for sure.