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Marc
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Scallops?
What are the restaurants in Baja trying to pass off as sea scallops? Whatever they are serving is usually very good, but it ain't the real thing.
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elgatoloco
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manta ray, likely.
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Ken Bondy
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When a restaurant says "sea scallops" they are most likely to be pieces of ray-type fishes, typically angel sharks, bat rays, mobulas, etc., cut out
of the "wings" with cookie-cutter devices. In the US it is not legal to call a scallop a scallop unless it is a real rock scallop. Thus the term
"sea scallop".
[Edited on 9-28-2010 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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mulegemichael
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must be baja norte, cause down here we get the real thing...i've bought them lots of times still in the shell...mantas?...ugh
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
must be baja norte, cause down here we get the real thing...i've bought them lots of times still in the shell...mantas?...ugh |
Same here in Loreto.
Pretty easy to tell if they're real.
They have dirt and black slimy stuff around the perimeter.
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you got it, van...lots of times i go down to the launch when the boats are coming in and buy a 5 gallon bucket of free swimming scallops still in the
shell....steam em up...yummm baby, yummm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Marc
When a restaurant says "sea scallops" they are most likely to be pieces of ray-type fishes, typically angel sharks, bat rays, mobulas, etc., cut out
of the "wings" with cookie-cutter devices. In the US it is not legal to call a scallop a scallop unless it is a real rock scallop. Thus the term
"sea scallop".
[Edited on 9-28-2010 by Ken Bondy] |
Very true! Didnt it start out with shark tails a long time ago, down in the southern us?
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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bajajudy
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If they are called callitos they are bay scallops and there is no mistaking them for manta because they are small, about the size of your last finger
joint and you can see the vein/muscle. They are the best in a c-cktail(raw). Most people who cook them tend to over cook them and they wind up
having the consistency of your finger tip.
BTW manta is really good machaca
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In most cases Lobina (Bass) is substituted for Callo de Hacha (Scallops).
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JESSE
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Never heard of anybody using fake scallops down here.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Never heard of anybody using fake scallops down here. |
Thanks, Jessie
That's what I thought but you are the expert
Good news indeed.
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That story has been going around a long time about using Manta Ray for scallops and I have never really seen that happening and I spend a lot of time
with the pangueros. Seems to have evolved because they were not packaged with styrofoam and plastic wrap and sold out of the supermarket with all of
the health warnings and listing of calorie content and the like.
In the long run does it really matter? You buy them, cook them up, eat them, and if they are great, you pat yourself of the back that you are
some kind of great negotiator, if they are lousy (which they can be for various reasons) you figure you just got taken by another Mexican Scam Artist.
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Skari; Might you tell us about the Past History of
Scollops in your Town??
Many years ago when "Fish Places" they were serving what they called Scallops. Places like Capt. D's. Finally in Calif. they were made to put a small
sign near the entrance door telling people that they may be eatin Shark.
On one of my Adventure Trips from Loreto to the pacific I started noticing groups of women working in small Sheds, on checking it out discovered that
they were "Stamping out" Scallops. When the Hwy opened they were being Hauled to the states. Skates were being used and passed off as Sea Scallops
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DENNIS
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If you have to wonder what it is you're really eating, the anxiety of it all will ruin the meal.
I'll bet most of us have had a substitute scallop and didn't know it. Just thought the meal was delicious. If, before eating the same meal, we were
told it was faux, we would have said it was terrible.
Down here, great flavor begins in the mind.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
If you have to wonder what it is you're really eating, the anxiety of it all will ruin the meal.
I'll bet most of us have had a substitute scallop and didn't know it. Just thought the meal was delicious. If, before eating the same meal, we were
told it was faux, we would have said it was terrible.
Down here, great flavor begins in the mind. |
I don't mind substitute scallops or crab- I just don't like to pay for the real thing and not be getting it.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I don't mind substitute scallops or crab- I just don't like to pay for the real thing and not be getting it. |
Would it still bother you if you didn't know?
See, Woooosh? That's what I'm talking about. Never again will you be able to have a Scallop dinner without suspicion running through your mind.
Kinda detracts from the experience....doncha think?
Most here know this, but maybe some don't....the Angel Shark is what you get at most fish taco stands in town.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/pacificangels...
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We have camped at Playa Requeson numerous times in the past 20 years. About 5-6 years ago we were there on one of our stops for a few days and one
morning I watched as the 'pangueros' loaded up their gill net(s) and rowed their boat (had no motor) out around the isla and came back a few hours
later. The next morning they rowed out again and returned with a net full of 20-30 small rays, probably bat rays? I got out my binos and watched as
they cut off the 'wings' and two guys with what looked like sawed in half tin cans took to jamming them down on the meat and extracting small rounds
of flesh that they then washed in a bucket of salt water and placed in zip lock bags. Later in the afternoon one of the gentleman fishermen came
walking thru the palapas with a couple of bags offering to sell everyone 'scallops'. When he got to my location I politely declined and when he went
to the hard sell of 'muy fresca escallop amigo' I held up my binos and pointed in the direction of his camp and he smiled and shrugged and went on his
way. I did notice that after traversing the camp he returned empty handed so someone had a nice meal of 'scallops' that evening. A man has to eat,
right?
I will say that MANY of the rays that were cut up were very very small, maybe two feet wing to wing. Must have been very tender.
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around here real diver's scallops go for $2 US each cleaned or $1 each in the shell
Bob Durrell
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| Quote: | Pretty easy to tell if they're real.
They have dirt and black slimy stuff around the perimeter. |
Surely you aren't being served scallops that way in a restaurant, are you?
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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by Bajatripper
Pretty easy to tell if they're real.
They have dirt and black slimy stuff around the perimeter. |
Surely you aren't being served scallops that way in a restaurant, are you? |
Well...how else is someone to know they're authentic? Black slimey stuff is the seal of approval.
YUMMY YUMMY
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