I Wonder How Anyone Knew

[cassa333]

I wonder how anyone knew this wasn’t lobster.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51111790

I suppose some people who really like and eat a lot of lobster might be able to tell but (I assume) trading standards must have found out somehow!!

[woofgang]

I'd know...its like the difference between a piece of chicken breast and the chopped and shaped stuff.

[Butterbun]

Found out by tests, probably. They tend to do it covertly.

[ummmm]

I'd know the difference as well.

[cassa333]

I wouldn’t. But then again I don’t much like seafood.

But what would prompt trading standards to check?

[bookbinder]

Trading Standards officers are always checking something or other, so this 'inaccuracy' was probably found via a regular check.

[Peter Pedant]

a bit like the difference between beef and donkey

lobster = money +++ and so there is a temptation to sub washed white fish = crab fingers for the lobster

a teacher wrote up to the papers about well educatede children twenty y ago - asked what colour is a lobster
the child asked - thermidor or mornay?

[Zacs-Master]

A trading standards employee eating there.

A disgruntled employee

A sacked ex employee

A suspicious customer

Maybe?

[albaqwerty]

I thought Trading Standards did random tests of all sorts of things just to make sure companies behaved themselves.

[naomi24]

I would know.

[Old_Geezer]

Flavour, and visual. White fish doesn't much taste like lobster.

[david small]

I would know. I love lobster, I also eat a lot of white fish.
There is a striking difference to my palette.

[ToraToraTora]

I'd know the difference, Lobster has a specific flavour and texture.

[ToraToraTora]

the package they used is pretty open about the ingredients, 35% lobster. So they just needed to be creative on the menu, so if they'd have called it something like Lobster and seafood with king prawns, they'd have been ok.

[woofgang]

yup, just stupid...and then to try and excuse themselves by saying that's the dish they make the least profit on....