Boy am i getting the air time today ,,,, I found that removing the livers
from a shark immediately upon catching them will not let the meat get that
undisirable taste . Smoked shark can be passed off as salmon in taste but
not texture . as for the "Fake " scallops I have read that the Pinna
abductor has been sold as scallop meat . side not , those always inventive
Japanese gujys who brought us the "louis Kemp fake but tasty" immitation
crab meat now have fake lobster and scallop. whats next fake bacon ???
ferret


>There's no way to make shark taste like scallops.  Even long soaking in
>water cannot eliminate all traces of the high blood concentration of uric
>acid characteristic of sharks.  I've tried.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joan Jass [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:35 AM
>> To:   [log in to unmask]
>> Subject:      scallops as seafood
>>
>> CONCH-L subscribers--
>>
>> Some time ago I heard that not all "scallops" one finds on seafood menus
>> are mollusks, that shark meat is sometimes marketed as scallops.  Is
there
>> any way of telling, either by name (for ex, I would expect "bay scallop"
>> to
>> be genuine mollusk), or by examination of the product, which ones are
>> shark
>> meat?
>>
>> Thanks for enlightenment,  Joan
>>
>> J.Jass, Zoology Section, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee WI 53233
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