Wednesday, May 11, 2005
How to have an exotic menu
Reminds me of Chinese thousand year eggs which aren't exactly a thousand years old. More like a month being pickled.
Jax
Eyewitness News caught restaurants selling frozen fish and making up fancy-sounding names in order to fool you. . . State officials tell Channel 9 that, more and more often, seafood outlets are selling fish that doesn't exist. Channel 9 found several restaurants selling White Snapper or Silver Snapper, a fish Lamee couldn't catch if she wanted to, because it doesn't exist.
At the Sea Harvest Restaurant in New Smyrna Beach, Channel 9 reporter Steve Barrett ordered Silver Snapper and wondered what it really was. In the dumpster out back, an answer was found: cod boxes from New Zealand. Oddly, cod isn't even on Sea Harvest's menu.
Barrett went inside ask why. The first manager insisted they sold Silver Snapper, but soon a second manager came clean. (Link)
Jax
Eyewitness News caught restaurants selling frozen fish and making up fancy-sounding names in order to fool you. . . State officials tell Channel 9 that, more and more often, seafood outlets are selling fish that doesn't exist. Channel 9 found several restaurants selling White Snapper or Silver Snapper, a fish Lamee couldn't catch if she wanted to, because it doesn't exist.
At the Sea Harvest Restaurant in New Smyrna Beach, Channel 9 reporter Steve Barrett ordered Silver Snapper and wondered what it really was. In the dumpster out back, an answer was found: cod boxes from New Zealand. Oddly, cod isn't even on Sea Harvest's menu.
Barrett went inside ask why. The first manager insisted they sold Silver Snapper, but soon a second manager came clean. (Link)
