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Batjack
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All depends on where one gets them. If from a federally regulated store, 50/50 they are scallops. From a seaside restaurant or roadside stand.. 100% not.
Well that is good to know. I don't really know what a federally regulated store is, but the only place I have ever had the big ones is from a restaurant or a roadside store on the coast. They were good but cost a zillion dollars a pound, stingrays, not so much. Thanks for the info. P.S. I don't really care if this is fact or opinion, I feel sure that most if not all of the ones I bought at the seafood store on the coast are probably fake sea scallops.
Batjack
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Federally regulated.. Kroger, Publix, etc.
If they ain't they ought to be....sting rays are good! I have always heard that but I know for certain that stingrays are good. There is also a lot of calamari sold around the world that is obviously ray....long solid chunks instead of tubes. Still good in my opinion.
Ray are better eating than any shark out there...filet out the wings & deep fry,
I agree completely. Never really cared for sharks. Bonnet Heads are pretty tasty but the rest seem about the same....
It is might near impossible to make certain the fish you are buying is what it is said to be. I read somewhere once that world wide it was the biggest counterfiet activity of all time and it ain't close. Given that most of it tastes pretty good I don't mind and if all they sold was actually what it was called the prices would be such that most people couldn't eat much of any of it.....
He didn't make it up, except that he's wrong about all the bigger scallops being rays. Some are sold as scallops that aren't, I'm sure, but I'd say the vast majority of big sea scallops for sale are actually scallops. As for the method he described, that's exactly how my buddy does it.Not the first time I've heard that...
Was sitting in a Greyhound depot in Connecticut in 1978, and an old (younger than
I am now
He said they'd catch skates and rays, nail em to a board, and use pipes with one end sharpened--wider pipe for bigger scallops, narrower pipe for smaller scallops. Smack end of pipe with a mallet, then run a dowel down the pipe, and out come a pile of scallops.
I don't see why the guy would have made that up, to tell some hung-over college kid--who he'd never see again--sitting in a bus depot.
Steve762us
Senior Member
Oh, I dunno...think a lot of big retailer's fish came out "mis-labeled" when checked,
genetically.
https://www.montereycountyweekly.co...cle_253f7b39-8656-5ca6-8786-661db547fe7e.html
https://nypost.com/2019/11/05/seafood-lovers-could-be-eating-counterfeit-fish/
https://naturalsociety.com/59-percent-tuna-mislabeled-fake-tuna-anal-oil-leakage/
Batjack
Cap`n Jack 1313
That's why I said a 50/50 chance they are real when bought from a federally regulated store.Oh, I dunno...think a lot of big retailer's fish came out "mis-labeled" when checked,
genetically.
https://www.montereycountyweekly.co...cle_253f7b39-8656-5ca6-8786-661db547fe7e.html
https://nypost.com/2019/11/05/seafood-lovers-could-be-eating-counterfeit-fish/
https://naturalsociety.com/59-percent-tuna-mislabeled-fake-tuna-anal-oil-leakage/
cuda67bnl
Senior Member
Rays taste similar to scallops. But the meats are easily distinguishable by looking at it. Other fish, not so much.
panfishvinnie
Senior Member
Great fish, congratulations!!
mrs. hornet22
Beach Dreamer
We've done that. Good eats for sure, but it just aint worth the trouble of cleaning them. Lots of work. H22 nailed it to a bench and took of the skin. Then cut "scallops" out of the wings.
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