Are Some Restaurants Serving Fake Scallops?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Some restaurants have served their customers fake scallops. Inside Edition gathered samples of scallops from a popular fish market in New York City. They were sent to Applied Food Technologies in Florida, where Molly Sims and her colleagues specialize in seafood DNA analysis. The lab found there wasn't any scallop within the food. Instead, surimi, a fish paste, was found within the "scallops." A seafood expert says of all the creatures in the sea, scallops are the most frequently substituted.
Imitation foods should be cheaper and labeled as imitation
Then they wouldn't sell. They know what they're doing 🤷♂️
@@jowens197 Yes it does actually. I love eating it!
@@ThiccZuccy Well, maybe for not as much 🤷♂️
It's supposed to be. You would be suprised.. did you know 90% of olive oil sold in the u.s. is actually 90% rape seed oil? And 90% of cinnamon sold in the u.s. isn't actually cinnamon bark?
But then they get a lower profit margin.
This news reporter is BOLD 😂 in EVERY video she just walks up and calls these people out like she does not care if she’s embarrassing them or making them look bad 😂😂 she’s funny. Need more news reporters like her
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Wow how come ppl love lying and trickery like the cdc
Yes inside edition is the best
That’s why we love Lisa
😂😂😂 That restaurant owner just admitted the scallops aren’t the only thing that is imitation 😂😂😂
Yeah lol but I think he meant in general like across the U.S.
I wonder what else is fake?
He meant in general across the world and supermarket but they go and bash these small restaurants for it knowing that everything is replaced with a substitute ...you dont see inside edition questioning the owner of skittles and ask them why is there harmful metals in your candy ....or ask McDonald's what's there chicken nuggets made out of when they say its chicken and that's not true .... or ask the meat industry how they glue peices of meat together with this protein glue paste3and sell scraps as steaks
That's because he was trying to justify a wrong with another wrong. He's basically saying, "Everybody's doing it so it's okay."
@@alvinmah6148 Crab "Krab", and the fish you order has a high probability of not being that fish. There was a whole thing on sushi restaurants years ago.
Being a chef in the 80s, we inspected our scallop delivery every time. "Scallops" were being punched out of shark steaks. Same texture and similar taste. Real Scallops have connective tissue and their liquid gives a very distinct iridescence. I remember refusing several deliveries.
… that doesn’t make sense. I would assume Shark is worth more than scallops, why would they use a more expensive product?
Good for you to refuse the shipment.
@crazybobert5243 it's really not. In Australia fish and chips shops use what we call flake which is shark meat because it's one of the cheapest options available
Oh? That's so weird lol
Nowadays they're made out of skate wings
I've worked in a fine dining restaurant selling a specific Japanese scallop with purple shells to a top price. They'd order in one batch when changing the menu to those and then just reuse the shells buying in cheap frozen scallops to make it look like they're the real deal....
True!! In some places you reuse the shell just like the lobster 🦞 shell!!
But why charge people like they’re eating the real thing?
@@1_star_reviews money
They should be charged with fraud for doing that
And just like that next time I want scallops (or lobster) I’m making them myself
The owner was like, "I thought everyone knew this." Lmao
The owner was so unbothered by their “investigation” lmao I love it
Bahahaha
Well they probably should've guessed scallops wouldn't be so cheap
My dawg, I’m 20 years old & mexican , grinding hard to get out the hood, I can’t be 30 with nothing to show for so i smoke weed on my youtube channel 😮😮
It’s true cause I did too 😭 I never expect my seafood to be real unless if in in an actual Harbor or something 😭
Finally, another food-investigation video.
Love it 😊
This is what we want
I want the cover photo.
Lisa really be getting in their faces 😭 love her
Lisa really is getting OLD
No, shes annoying sometimes
Nah she is gold
Till she gets popped for fw the wrong ppl
@@jimmysalcedo7910 Agreed she's very annoying
It's hilarious when they run away when you confront them. Like do they think that gets them off the hook? Do they think it doesn't make them look suspicious? Sure. Boy I tell you. Nothing bolsters my confidence in the people I buy from like seeing them flee when someone asks them a question about their products.
Could've said "yes, now show me the law against it" and the news probably wouldn't have even shown that.
@@hajimenagumo2199 exactly. It would have been nice to see their surprise Pikachu face when presented with food law regarding misrepresentation of product though.
Pretty damn annoying and rude when people just walk away from somebody just asking a simple question
I hate this when they try to scam people
Happens all the time
@@derekrobertson60388 I know people just don't have great tastebuds
It’s so hard to establish humans that value quality over quantity and greed
Wow so much scam like the cdc
Esp with food
I wonder if seafood chain restaurants like Red Lobster or Bonefish Grill also serve imitation scallops. They only identified three seemingly independent restaurants.
A big chain would definitely cheap out on a lot of things
@@itsame9780 yes I believe they replaced the lobster with langostino
@@Boxman5618 Usually not unless it's a franchise store (which means you're paying for the name), but you're much more in control of running the store and ordering product for the restaurant and making final decisions how you see fit.
I’m sure they do, they display lobster and crab in dishes that have no lobster or crab
Red lobster use Langostino (crab) for their "Lobster Bisque" 😉
I can't get over how cavalier that owner was about LYING about his products.
You clearly know nothing about the resturant business. Epically after Joe biden and covid hit
@@gsXXXrhub businesses have been doing this stuff for years. Not everything is political.
I promise you that something you buy regularly at the grocery store isn’t what it’s labeled to be. Especially in the US these scummy scammers get away with deceiving all of us.
@@gsXXXrhub get your political a* outta here
Anything to make a quick buck if he was just honest he would still make a lot of money
In Florida it was very common for places to use the wings of stingrays, punched out with like a cookie cutter. A bunch of places got caught doing it and misleading customers.
It was actually a really good imitation and I’ve probably been fooled myself without knowing it. If they put it on the menu as stingray, I’d probably still buy it. It’s the deception and price gouging by using cheaper products that’s the real problem imo.
I love scallops. I will splurge and buy and know that aren’t right. This is incredibly deceptive and unethical. I am glad to see this report.
I agree! Imitation or not, if i like something and it’s close to it, I’m buying. The only issue is the price and the plain deceit.
Stingray is probably way more expensive then scallop so why they did is behind me. Just sell stingray, it’ll make a lot of money.
@@Bobspineableprobably happened when certain species were not considered valuable. Remember lobster was considered peasant food back then, basically underwater sea roach
I'm pretty sure the op meant Skates, not Stingrays. They look very similar to people who don't study fish, but they're very different in terms of price lol
This has been an issue for at least the 50 years that I've been aware of. It's an odd thing for a child to remember being told... and at this point in my life, I'm not sure I've ever had real scallops, but I have had the 'imitation' version.
Just pick up some scallops at the store. They're pretty easy to fry up.
Now I knew the scallops we ordered looked fishy
I see what you did there 🤫
I can see why that would make you krabby
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Of _coral-se_ they would look fishy. You should have already _sea_ it coming.
@@DeezNuts-rj7bo The Weeknd be like “I feel it coming… I _sea_ it coming _bay-be_
"Then I would have to put 'imitation' on almost everything!" There, I finished his sentence for him. 🙄
That is so funny 😆
@@bunnybun2045 That's what I felt like he wanted to say! 😫
He should put imitation on his forehead because he's fake
Yeah, that’s cheating your costumers. Unless it’s like a brand or some weird naming, businesses should disclose if their product is imitation or not.
Look at imitation crab. People love it despite it not being the real deal.
customers
I agree! I love imitation crab! Even Chinese people will tell you it's imitation when I go to the buffet, I don't get why they lie.
@@ThiccZuccy tbh they should had changed it to fake scallops or just imitation scallops for weird look but the real deal is the taste i guess whifh what makes anyone go for it.
It's also spelled with a K.
@@layzy24 What's spelled with a K?
at least the first guy was honest lol
There was a time when a menu item called “bay scallops” were actually discs punched from manta ray wings. 🙁
How'd the manta taste?
Then that was pure fraud. If it says Bay Scallop, Atlantic Scallop or any of the other types of real scallops, then it must be the real scallop.
If it just says scallop, then it can be made from anything except scallop
Some restaurants do that with grouper too. Say it's grouper on the menu, charge the higher prices and it's another type of fish. My sister used to work at a restaurant that did that. A customer called them out on it. Restaurants could get in big trouble for doing that.
Same with Sea Bass.
It’s one of the most fraudulent seafood items.
Same with salmon
And with waygu
Yeah I remember working at a reputable had long lines restaurant they used drum albeit locally caught instead of grouper. To be honest it was really good and the plate was a great value but be truthful.
Its a federal charge.
We needed this series back
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All restaurant owners who have ever faked anything should run when they see Lisa on the move 😂😂😂
Worse...Ramsey
The first fella:No…
I had no clue imitation scallop existed.
he just gave away tips on how to make them seem more authentic, good job dude
The secondhand embarrassment I got from when he basically exposed that other stuff were also imitation 💀
Idk why since mostly everything you eat is synthetic or imitation products :/ Its pretty common.
@@thedogeater2269 yes but he’s supposedly saying that all his stuff is real and charging a lot for it but he basically admits that’s he lied to his customers
@@soupiaaa welcome to capitalism
@@soupiaaa i think he meant in general... Like crab sticks for example. Most crab sticks you get aren't actually crabs
@@cengi but they labeled as such. Bottom line he is stealing but not labeling as such
Be sure to do a follow up. A lot of these restaurants that say they’ll change the name most likely won’t.
They also do fake prawns and shrimps too in some places. Yet the people say it's real. The taste is so obvious.
I don’t really like scallops because I had them once or twice and thought they were so weird and rubbery. But now I’m wondering if I had real scallops
I love these videos especially when Lisa confronts them at the end. Also like the bike theft ones too and the dirty motels.
I love any video where she just straight up confronts them. lol
And all the fake church "pastors" and their "rock star wealth"
Nothing worse than a scammer
Unless it says Scallops substitute on the menu it should be fraud that gets the owners felony criminal charges
Absolutely.
Restaurants use small to medium sized stingrays also as scallops .
One time I went to a Chinese food restaurant my family and I had gone to for years. My sister bit into a piece of sesame chicken and thought it a bit strange and decided to smell it. It smelled like chlorine, like from city water. The texture of the chicken inside was not completely like chicken, and the “chicken” tasted strongly like chicken broth base without the taste of actual chicken meat and it seemed to be made of bread, like imitation vegan chicken. We didn’t go back there for years, but when we did, we were glad to find that the chicken was real again.
brave for going back and having it again
Lmao it was breading it happens all the time in breaded items
@@brettstaley3730lol..
The majority of the crab sushii you see in stores is actually treated white fish with one side dyed red.
& most Wasabi here in u.s. is not Wasabi, its horse radish w/ food coloring & whatever else they put..Wasabi is apparently rare & hard to come by & theyre allowed to sell this horseradish..and most American ground cinnamon contains not much real cinnamon..yet their allowed to call it ground cinnamon on the label. & don't get me started on baby food lol. Adult good is regulated and is suppose to only be allowed a certain amount of chemicals, but baby food is not regulated
@@stephscinapilo9856 Real Wasabi is rare even in Japan. it's very picky about where it grows and it loses most of it's flavor if it's not served super fresh (like as in most places that have it will literally grate it when you order). It's less an issue of a rarity, a ton could be grown if hte right conditions were recreated and more so the later thing.
It usually says "imitation" crab on the ingredients list, though...which is fine with me. I'm OK with pollock for the price, as real crab would be of the lowest quality to maintain the price point...
@@thewalrus45 I went to a really high end sushi restaurant and I believe they served real Wasabi, but I can't be sure. I know they imported most of their fish from Japan. The Wasabi was much more pleasant, less pungent and spicy. Not the bright green color, either, it was darker and more natural looking. If it were fake Wasabi, I'd like to know what kind because it was great.
She said scallops so much that it started to sound like a fake word
You too huh? Why is that?
Possibly because she pronounced it incorrectly.
It's:
ScALLop
The "all" part is pronounced the same way as the simple word 'all' -
NOT like the man's nickname 'Al'.
How is this legal? What if someone has a serious health concern or allergy? Its literally a SCAM
That's why I snorkel dive for these in San Diego, CA. Must have a license when extracting them.
Its fine to call them scallops just as long as in the description of the dish it mentions imitation, like how if you order Crab Rangoon, it isn’t called “Imitation Crab Rangoon” but it is mentioned in the description (cream cheese/imitation crab filling)
I have eaten the best scallops here on an island of bantayan in Cebu Philippines.. it's steamed and fresh you can taste the sweetness and feel the smell of the sea..it was the best scallop I have eaten.. it's only 2 dollars for 10-15 pieces shelled scallops with free delicious sweet sour and spicy coconut vinegar..
While I haven't had fresh scallops, I have had lobster that was caught and cooked on our boat ride, best thing ever
Feel the smell.... ok
Well, then, re-open Subic Bay!
why does that look like Junkyu in your dp? 😭
No way its only 2 dollars
I would be interested to see this done with other foods too!! 😊
It is
I know rhey do it with ground beef which they call pink slime.. Never buy meat from Walmart.
@@starrynight755 pink slime is not in Walmart ground beef at least not in 12 years
@@brettstaley3730 How do you know? Do you buy ground beef from Walmart? I don't.
@@starrynight755 I can see the legal action taken and when sanctions were put in place. I understand google
Many restaurants served fake scallops many years even Chef Ramsey makes episodes on them lol
Well surimi(process fish paste) itself is not that bad, the high quality one is quite expensive and fish cake variety is made from surimi, the problematic one is usually the very cheap one because cheap surimi often had questionable ingredients in them
That part just screams ignorant american
I bought some fake scallops from Kroger during the pandemic, I knew they were fake because I frequently purchased them from there , the taste, consistency and smell was different. I hadn’t bought any since.
Prolly just bad
Yea.. Kroger is too big to play games. Suppliers most likely won't wanna chance losing acct.
I knew a guy in Sarasota who would catch stingrays and sell them to the markets down there. They would form the scallops out of the wings from the stingray.
Sting ray is very often used as a "fake" scallop..
@@shh5627 I didn’t know until the fellow fishermen told me. Made me question everything 😂
The GRAIN would run the wrong way on the Drum shaped fake scallop?,
Wow, that’s very disturbing and wrong on every level.
This is why I don’t trust my coworkers or yelp saying oh this “sushi spot is the best” when they don’t have the palate to know if it’s real or imitation.
So basically seafood hot dogs
You can fool the customers but you can't fool Gordon Ramsay.
They were doing this way before now. I like 2 items from the sea, shark and scallops. The last time I ordered scallops at a restaurant 20 years ago, it tasted like fish.
I really do not like my food being tampered with like that. I do not like being fooled when it comes to food.
Don't go to mcd's, trying to sell "something" as meat. I don't have a lot of money, however, I would rather pay more to get a good meal than eat fast "food."
Good job inside edition i could never figure out if I was eating imitation crab or real crab... I'm glad you did this investigation. Thank you.
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He seemed pretty sincere in what he said.
At least some people were honest that the things were imitations. I gotta admit it, this video's hilarious😂
This helps make me grateful that I live in a small yet major fishing town. Everything here is fresh and real. If anyone tried to serve fake fish, they would get found out because they wouldn't be buying from the local fish market in the harbour. 😂
It's why I;m glad to live in San Francisco. Anyone trying this mess in a high end restaurant here would get exposed and shut down. I can't believe anyone would bite into these and believe it's the real deal. Once you realize it's fake, you complain and refuse to pay for it. And people know their food here.
Fake crab.. fake scallops, fake steak 🤢 All of it fits well in the world with fake women
Exactly
And all the food you’re eating from the grocery store is filled with cancer causing ingredients to support big pharma
Ive seen scallops stamped/pressed out of stingray wings.
This is such common knowledge even the restaurant owner was like “ummm duh… why is this news”
It would have been nice to also showcase the HONEST restaurants, they definitely deserved the plug.
I didn't even know "FAKE" scallops exist. 😂
Inside Edition needs to look into counterfeit goods sold in dollar store chains such as toothpaste, etc.
They should definitely tell you if it’s imitation or else it’s false advertising
Props to that dude for actually saying they’re not real
How did people not know this!?!? Anything that is shipped in frozen and fried is most likely not the actual fish advertised. Fresh and fresh caught is what you want to purchase.
Yeah but how do you know whatt's going on in the kitchen. It's It's not like every time you walk in you see a guy wheeling them off a Box truck like some scripted simpsons scene.
Makes the first place really scammy as they had it all set out in a case like fresh seafood.
@@leightonlawrence8832 You don’t. But if you ask about your food and you can’t get a straight answer, then you know it’s not authentic. An executive chef with their eye on good ratings will know and take pride in where they’re sourcing their food from. And will be even more elated to tell you about its quality.
Ive ate both kinds when i was young and was confused both named scallops. So without thinking deeper i just had assume one is "cheap" version like knockoff or maybe had some content of scallop mix inside, since its common to see such practice here, like "valuedollar" of its real counterpart. another one is crabmeat sticks, but yes should add the word imitation to be clear for first timers.
@@leightonlawrence8832 you should take in some context clues. That basket of fried scallops would cost like 60 bucks or more from a restaurant if they were real sea scallops. Plus, the likelihood of them doing a cheap batter and fry of some sweet sea scallops is low. If you're spending 15-20 bucks for like 15 scallops, then you know they aren't real. I just spent 45 bucks on a pack of scallops from Costco, and it wasn't a huge package, but they're real and delicious.
They give you less when they raise the price 😆😂😂
Moonpies an Twinkies were much bigger and cheaper when I was young
I just love Lisa. I wish all reporters were as strong willed and confident as she is. Not afraid to get confrontational, the best haha
As a scallop I can confirm this is true
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How is this is not a crime?
I think imitation scallops should Not be called scallops.
May be they should be called scallopey instead.
How ever you want to spell it!
How about Dolphin
Not Flipper! No, not Flipper!
They mentioned cities where they’re the real deal but didn’t mention the shops. Would like to know those sampled stores because we’d like to support these businesses 🤔
They literally put it out on display?
I absolutely love the texture of REAL scallops. But if I ever ordered scallops, only for it to be imitation scallops and it didn't have the same texture as a regular one, I'd be disappointed.
So you would be fine with imitation scallops with a similar texture?
To be fair, scallops taste different in different places from my experience. Hell, it isn't a long way from Cebu to Tacloban in the Philippines but the scallops taste and feel noticeably different.
@@matthewedwards3094 I would if I wasn't paying scallop prices. The texture is half the point.
It’s called beyond scallop 😂
I feel they should’ve revealed which restaurants did give them proper scallops.
This is absurd🤮
My old Lebanese boss useto sell beef meat kabob as lamb kabob, pour garlic sauce on it and charge double. Nobody ever suspected. I always thought it was lamb till one day the package the meat was in said "beef", he told me shhh...
Cmon, man. Lamb has a very distinctive taste. Most Middle Eastern restaurants use a beef/lamb mixture for gyros and kebabs, but you should still be able to taste the lamb.
"we're going to try scallops across the US"
"So let us just go to places in New York."
At least that one guy was honest about the scallops being fake
A real question is why is this such a common issue in the United States? You had Taco Bell get sued years ago for not having real beef in its beef.... And substitute after substitute All to maximize a profit.
This is absolutely insane! Ppl ain't shyt! I'm glad I saw this. Fake scallops but still charging real scallop prices. 😭
Amazing. I used to order scallop dishes all the time pre-covid. I can eat shell/crustacaean but am highly allergic to fish. Incoming lawsuit for me if they don't clarify 🤔
Let me guess, you also have a gluten "allergy?" Lawsuit for your fake naturopathic "nutritionist" that told you were allergic to fish?
LOL that you can eat fish cakes al day long coated in wheat no problem when you thought it was shellfish. You need to see a psychiatrist t get a cure for your fake "allergies."
Sure you will
If you’re highly allergic to fish Wouldn’t it be unsafe to eat anywhere that serves scallops seeing as there is most definitely going to be cross contamination
you clearly arent highly allrerigic.....just specifically allergic...because u ate fish all the time pre covid...lol
I used to work as a prep cook at a restaurant called "Bull on the Beach" in Ocean City, MD. One of my jobs was to mix in cod fish with the crabmeat at about a 50/50 ratio so they could make their supposed 100% crabmeat crabcakes. I kept telling the owner that someone was eventually going to sue them when they had a reaction but he didn't care.
I’m so glad she is doing the myth busters thing again it’s been a while sense she has done one
I wouldn’t mind eating fake scallops. So long as it’s priced as fake. Ive eaten some truly awesome faux scallops.
So does changing the menu to reflect the imitation scallops served also mean readjusting the price as well? Imitation should not be as expensive as the real ones, right?
Omgoodness I always admire how she looks unapologetically puts scammers on blast with a mic and camera in their face.
Same with Cod fish in the UK🤣 Just say at the fish & chips shop u can only eat Cod because of allergies etc.. than ask if this is a real Cod ? 🤣 They would say I don't know, not sure....🤣
I wouldn't really mind if I was served a fake scallop but I do understand the importance of making it clear to the customers.
Let the people decide! Seems fair to me.
I am addicted to these inside edition videos
I LOVE LISA OMG WE NEED MORE OF HER
I love inside edition for these kind if things 😊
And the manager of that food place she ran back inside and tricking customers to get their money serving fake scallops and she's being exposed.
Got busted and she knew it. The jig is up baby!
Why would you wanna buy a deep fried scallop when they taste so much better grilled?
This is so dangerous. People have food allergies, and seafood needs to be clearly and truthfully labeled so people don't die. If you can't afford to serve real scallops, take em off the menu.
This does not surprise me in the slightest.
Some years ago I watched a BBC documentary titled "faking It". One thread stuck in my mind. It showed how boiled eggs were faked using different solutions to make the yolk and the white. The yolk and white were made separately in molds then fixed together using a different solution. One of the ingredients was melamine powder.
So next time you eat a pickled egg be sure it is an egg.
It's clearly obvious when you get imitation scallops. I don't know why you'd need a lab test to tell you. I get the point was to see if the restaurants were cheating their customers, but the price is usually the reflection of the product. Cheaper most likely means imitation. If you're paying market price, then more times than not they will be legit. At least in the north east.
Always remember CHEAP IS GOOD BUT GOOD IS NOT CHEAP !!
Or its stingray
@@shawnhicks9838 sure could be, dolphin?
I’ve seen people charge as much for fake fish as what you would pay for the real thing in NE markets. They want to treat it as if it’s real to make people feel like they’re getting the real thing.
Sue those restaurants as Starbucks got sued due to their fake fruit drinks
A penalty would be more effective. No point putting small businesses under completely. Won't discourage the practice, just clog the legal system
@@berrypi8865 Agreed
So that’s why they got rid of their fruit smoothies at Starbucks?
@@The.Original.Potatocakes I think those were for summer only
@@tacobell1299 I kinda miss the strawberry banana one
Actually those people should be closed down and or prosecuted.
My dad was on a destroyer in the Mediterranean back in the 60s. He said they had a crate of scallops and this one guy really liked scallops so he ate 300 of them in one sitting sort of cool hand luke style.
Now I am craving scallops (real scallops of course)
The first time I ate scallop, I didn't taste that good. The second time, I had it fresh and it was delicious. I thought that was a difference from the ingredients being frozen versus fresh. Now after seeing this, it was possible that it was difference of fake versus real instead
you guys should be thanking me i asked them to bring the investigations back with lisa and they did but i got no likes or support from you guys so youre welcome