Post by corrina on Jul 7, 2023 14:22:58 GMT -5
Crab stick fans swear off them after learning revolting secret to how they’re made
By Ben Cost
July 7, 2023
It was a crab-pocalyptic discovery.
Crab stick fans are swearing off the savory accoutrement after a revolting video surfaced showing exactly how these faux seafood treats are made.
A Reddit post detailing the process is currently eliciting gags as disillusioned fans analogize the imitation crustacean to a “fish hotdog.”
“Surimi crab sticks are hygienically made using pure tender meat and natural pigment,” reads the description on the longer version of the video on YouTube.
In the revelatory, filmed at the world’s largest crab stick processing plant in Thailand, crab counterfeiters can be seen shoving white, cocaine-like bricks of frozen fish meat into a shredding machine. These are then mulched up and transferred to another contraption and blended with salt and egg white. Copious ice cubes are subsequently dumped in along with sugar and vegetable oil while real crab is nowhere to be found.
Then, a giant rotating crisp pulverizes the ingredients into a beige sludge like some kind of bizarro confection from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” This is then mechanically molded into a long noodle that’s cocooned with its signature traffic cone orange coating. For the uninitiated, this casing is dyed surimi, a multifaceted fish or meat paste that comes in various shapes and textures and can be used to approximate everything from eel to, well, crab a la a gourmet shapeshifter.
nypost.com/2023/07/07/crab-stick-fans-swear-off-food-following-revolting-processing-video/
By Ben Cost
July 7, 2023
It was a crab-pocalyptic discovery.
Crab stick fans are swearing off the savory accoutrement after a revolting video surfaced showing exactly how these faux seafood treats are made.
A Reddit post detailing the process is currently eliciting gags as disillusioned fans analogize the imitation crustacean to a “fish hotdog.”
“Surimi crab sticks are hygienically made using pure tender meat and natural pigment,” reads the description on the longer version of the video on YouTube.
In the revelatory, filmed at the world’s largest crab stick processing plant in Thailand, crab counterfeiters can be seen shoving white, cocaine-like bricks of frozen fish meat into a shredding machine. These are then mulched up and transferred to another contraption and blended with salt and egg white. Copious ice cubes are subsequently dumped in along with sugar and vegetable oil while real crab is nowhere to be found.
Then, a giant rotating crisp pulverizes the ingredients into a beige sludge like some kind of bizarro confection from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” This is then mechanically molded into a long noodle that’s cocooned with its signature traffic cone orange coating. For the uninitiated, this casing is dyed surimi, a multifaceted fish or meat paste that comes in various shapes and textures and can be used to approximate everything from eel to, well, crab a la a gourmet shapeshifter.
nypost.com/2023/07/07/crab-stick-fans-swear-off-food-following-revolting-processing-video/
