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11th July 2023
12:04pm BST
Emily Mullen
This slop is turned into crabsticks (YouTube/Food Kingdom)[/caption]
This is then fed into a huge mixer and churned up with ingredients such as egg whites and wheat.
This is all combined into a disturbing grey paste that looks more like something you might use if you were renovating your bathroom than anything you’d happily put in your mouth.
Things don’t get better from here.
The putty-like substance is fed into a machine that creates one long strip of solid fish material, which is then woven together to create the texture of crab or lobster meat.
Some of the end product is then sold off as surimi or substitute crab meat, whilst the rest is given an orange coating and sold as crabsticks.
So, yes – the crabsticks you pick up in the supermarket don’t contain any crab.
People were left shocked at this realisation, with one person writing: “I will never purchase this ever again! Thank you for opening my eyes!”
Another said: “I always thought this stuff was disgusting, now I KNOW it is.”
But some weren’t put off after seeing behind the crabstick curtain.
One person commented: “I love adding lots of mock crabmeat to my delicious pasta salad recipe. See, now y’all went and made me hungry!!!”
“To be perfectly honest, I like the product. It’s very affordable and makes a very good cold crab salad,” said another.
Ignorance is bliss.
This article originally appeared on Joe.co.uk.
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