Getting off topic now, but there really is fake bacon.  It can be tofu or
turkey disguised as bacon and they are both really rather good.  I won't eat
pork but I love the taste of bacon so these fakeries have been most welcome by
me.

ferreter wrote:

> 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
> >