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Additionally, most Australians (don't know about the rest of the world) have never eaten an actual scallop. Mostly they're discs hole-punched from skate wings
by rukuu001 10y ago
Additionally, most Australians (don't know about the rest of the world) have never eaten an actual scallop.
Mostly they're discs hole-punched from skate wings (a skate's a bit like a stingray)
- toomanybeersies 10y agoHere in New Zealand, most of the time when I get scallops they have the orange egg-sac bit still attached. Is that not the case in Aus?
- rukuu001 10y agoSometimes the anonymous white discs will have a bit sliced almost off and coloured with orange food dye. Often not. You'll see genuine (imported) scallops at markets occasionally, but it's years and years since I saw a restaurant serve the real thing.
- elbrownos 10y agoIn the UK, most scampi (a crustacean) is actually monkfish tail.
- sjwright 10y agoAustralian. Citation please?
- rukuu001 10y agoSee for yourself - like toomanybeersies says, they should have an orange roe (boys and girls both have them - scallops switch sex as required), attached by some stringy material. The roe has a flavour and texture different to the white meat of the scallop, which is the muscle used to open and close the shell. The white meat should have a firm and homogeneous texture - fakes tend to have textured lines through them, but not always.
- jdminhbg 10y agoSkate wing is legitimately tasty. It definitely has a shellfish taste to it, so I can see how you could fool someone into thinking it was a scallop.