Tuesday, January 28, 2025

SHRIMP ......WELL ......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 


Listen the only thing  i relate to shrimp .......is the  forrest gump movie .....well there are   coconut shrimp ......BBQ shrimp.....boiled shrimp .......curry shrimp ......and on and on ........if you saw the  movie  .....well i hate  shrimp....... they look like    cockroach  they are referred  to as  the  cockroach of  the   ocean     ...they are bottom feeders of the sea .......and lobster...too   .....it is overpriced    and  shitty  food   ....... i do not  know  what  people see in  crustaceans  .........however   only 2% of the  total planet  has  gourmet taste  buds ......the rest have  gourmand   taste  buds .......and they cannot  tell   anything  about  food  ....the restaurant  business is  so dishonest......look at   #john taffer's bar rescue    look at  the  state  of  all bars and  suchlike always drugs thieving ...... over pouring  money  getting    wasted ........ and   usually the  staff........  do not  give a  flying   fuck  about the  bar ......... and  over pour all the  time   ......we all know a   girl  will over pour  for  more  tips ......and   dumb guys ....... think the  bartender  wants  to fuck him .......   they are only in it for  the  cash .....i use  to   be  a bartender......   its a   skeevy   fucking  job ......but  if  you  want  degeneration .......  its   there   .....nothing  get   going till after  midnight...... that is  when it is   bad  .....however  .......  fake  shrimp  the   average  diner......  will never   know  .......whether they are eating  fake or  local shrimp   how  can they tell ........they can't  ......... that is  why they are doing it .........


Shrimp fraud' rampant at many Gulf Coast restaurants, new studies find

Restaurants throughout the Gulf Coast are serving imported shrimp but telling their customers they're feasting on fresh crustaceans fished in the Gulf of Mexico, a series of new studies found.

SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.

The cities with the highest "shrimp fraud rate" were Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg, Florida, at 96%, according to SeaD Consulting. Only two of the 44 restaurants sampled were serving authentic shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, a study found.

A batch of wild caught Gulf of Mexico shrimp sits on a sorting table on shrimper Keo Nguyen’s boat at a dock east of Lake Borgne prior to bringing it to a seafood market Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.
A batch of wild caught Gulf of Mexico shrimp sits on a sorting table on shrimper Keo Nguyen’s boat at a dock east of Lake Borgne prior to bringing it to a seafood market Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.

The tests in other cities yielded similar results. In Biloxi, 82% of the restaurants "were defrauding consumers about what they were buying," SeaD said. In Galveston, 59% of the 44 restaurants it sampled served imported shrimp while claiming they were caught locally. In Baton Rouge, researchers sampled menu items at 24 restaurants and found nearly 30% – more than 1 in 4 – were misrepresented.

“Consumers come to the coast expecting the finest, freshest Gulf seafood, but what they’re being served often falls far short of that,” said Erin Williams, chief operations officer of SeaD Consulting. “This isn’t just about mislabeling; it’s about eroding consumer trust, undercutting local businesses, and threatening the livelihood of hardworking Gulf shrimpers.”

As restaurants deceive customers, shrimpers are struggling to compete

The consulting company behind the research says the rampant misrepresentation hurts not only customers – who are put at higher risk of consuming tainted food – but also harms local fishermen struggling to compete with the low cost of imported shrimp from countries like India, Vietnam and Ecuador.

About 90% of shrimp consumed in the United States is imported, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

John Williams, the executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, a Florida-based advocacy group that represents shrimpers in multiple states, said in a statement that “Family-owned shrimp businesses operating out of the Port of Tampa are struggling to survive while local restaurants bamboozle customers into thinking locally caught shrimp are being served."