carla griffin wrote:I don't get it... yesterday was the third time in about 4 or 5 weeks that I ordered something off a menu that contained crabmeat and it wasn't crab...it was that fake stuff which is awful. The price reflected real crab. When I remark about it to my server they just kind of shrug and tell me most people like it or can't tell the difference. This has happened in 3 different restaurants.
I know the product is used to help keep food costs down but not noting so on the menu is deceptive. I won't be back.
carla griffin wrote:I don't get it... yesterday was the third time in about 4 or 5 weeks that I ordered something off a menu that contained crabmeat and it wasn't crab...it was that fake stuff which is awful. The price reflected real crab. When I remark about it to my server they just kind of shrug and tell me most people like it or can't tell the difference. This has happened in 3 different restaurants.
I know the product is used to help keep food costs down but not noting so on the menu is deceptive. I won't be back.
TP Lowe wrote:Similarly, I was at Costco looking at a huge tub of "lump crab meat" thinking about crab cakes, then I read the ingredients. Blech. I think it is painfully disingenuous the way some retailers label their products.
Robin Garr wrote:TP Lowe wrote:Similarly, I was at Costco looking at a huge tub of "lump crab meat" thinking about crab cakes, then I read the ingredients. Blech. I think it is painfully disingenuous the way some retailers label their products.
Okay, I'll bite (or maybe not). <i>What</i> else is in "lump crab meat" other than crab?
TP Lowe wrote:I can't recall the exact word, but it consists of other types of fish (whitefish comes to mind) - fish parts, so to speak.
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