To keep from becoming an NSR  submit the following , Dateline Riviera Beach,
peanut island florida , A reliable source has informed me that the once
famous Peanut Island Shelling grounds has been destroyed . In an attempt to
rebuild the island the powers to be , in the name of replenishment and
reconstruction have removed the famed south end rock pile where murex,
nerites, turrids , and conus plus the occasional triton were found . The
north end sand flat has been disrupted and all the turtle and eel grass
areas off thwe edge of the sand flat are now dead and rotting . The same
went on to report that not one living strombus alatus was found . This
really turns my tail as last spring I personally found and inspected at
least 300-400 . of this i took 5 purple mouthed and 4 deep red pugilus , i
still felt bad taking any but i got over it . anyway i also found a 6 1/2
inch long "flame augar" slightly dead .
 NSR  WARNING
I'm happy that you find that stuff palatable but for tofu or soy protein to
taste like bacon, scallops or ice cream there are far more nasties
(chemicals that i can't pronounce) added then found in the food that they
are trying to immitate.
I must say Nora ,waking up to  the smell of bacon frying , coffee perking
and fresh pines on the morning is the basis of camping . it's why we endure
that stone that poked you in the back throught the bottom of the tent all
night long .
ferret (with dreams of camping in yosemite)





-----Original Message-----
From: NORA BRYAN <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: scallops as seafood-a little off topic now


>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
>> >
>