Imitation crab stick

[sulasno]

Which brand do you eat (if you are eating)?

Imported or local?

[happynthailand]

Superior Japanese style, you can buy them in Makro

best I've found here

[sulasno]

Thanks for quick response

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[tonray]

Don't eat....just pressed cheap fish and coloring and flavoring....blechhhh

[billphillips]

I don't think it's fish or anything to do with the sea. Perhaps soya with chemical colourings and flavours. I can't be arsed to google it, likewise eating it.

[worgeordie]

Yes its fish ,maybe some egg whites,I would not eat them or any

food with imitation in the name.

regards Worgeordie

[wayned]

In Japanese, crab stick is called "surimi," which actually means "ground meat." It's kind of the ocean's version of the hot dog, if you need an analogy.

[stoli]

Don't eat....just pressed cheap fish and coloring and flavoring....blechhhh

I totally agree. Just crap. On the channel that shows factories that produce food, they show the process. I can't imagine why the manufacturer allowed camera crews inside. Trash fish, made into mush, pushed through an extruder, and spray painted with the pink food dye.

Jello will not allow any cameras or visitors in their factory for the same reason. The gelatin is obtained by scraping the fat off the underbelly of a cow's hide.

[IMA_FARANG]

Don't eat....just pressed cheap fish and coloring and flavoring....blechhhh

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I have seen it made in a fish processing factory in Iceland.

Waste fish parts that are left over from fish fillets and shellfish shells from Crab and Shrimp ground up and pulverized as the Red coloring.

Then the whole mess is squeezed thru a array of tubes to extrude the water.

The paste that comes out is then cooked in a big microwave oven, then packaged.

Every year they sell tons of this to Japan which are shipped boatloads at a time to Japan from Iceland.

[ClutchClark]

Don't eat....just pressed cheap fish and coloring and flavoring....blechhhh

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I have seen it made in a fish processing factory in Iceland.

Waste fish parts that are left over from fish fillets and shellfish shells from Crab and Shrimp ground up and pulverized as the Red coloring.

Then the whole mess is squeezed thru a array of tubes to extrude the water.

The paste that comes out is then cooked in a big microwave oven, then packaged.

Every year they sell tons of this to Japan which are shipped boatloads at a time to Japan from Iceland.

Are you sure you are not describing Soylent Green ?

[AyG]

In Japanese, crab stick is called "surimi," which actually means "ground meat." It's kind of the ocean's version of the hot dog, if you need an analogy.

Not quite right, I'm afraid. Crab sticks are made from surimi, as are many other products in Japan. They are not called surimi. They used to be called kani kamaboko (kani meaning crab), but that was banned since they didn't actually contain much crab. Now they are called kani fumi kamaboko (crab flavoured kamaboko - kamaboko being form of cured surimi).

[billphillips]

In an earlier post I stated that I could not be arsed to google crab sticks .... but I just did. A very disturbing page came up ..... take a look here ....

http://dailyhealthpost.com/7-reasons-to-stop-eating-fake-crab-surimi/

[spidermike007]

In an earlier post I stated that I could not be arsed to google crab sticks .... but I just did. A very disturbing page came up ..... take a look here ....

http://dailyhealthpost.com/7-reasons-to-stop-eating-fake-crab-surimi/

You are right. That article proves what absolute junk food these fake crab sticks are. Scary food. Probably carcinogenic.

[steven100]

I guess similar could be said for fish fingers or chicko rolls or fish cakes ?