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Fresh Seafood Sellers are Cheats!
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:00 pm
When buying fresh seafood by the pound don't you wonder if you're really getting what you pay for? I went to the Westwego Seafood Lot yesterday and picked up 15 lbs of fresh shrimp and when I got home I weighed it two ways.... in the packaging of plastic bag, wrapped in newspaper and in plastic bags again. My kitchen scale which is digital shows I got 4 lbs 15 oz. and 10 lbs 1 oz packaged and 9 lbs 3 oz. and 4 lbs 6 oz. which comes to 13 lbs 9 oz of shrimp when I paid for 15 pounds. Something similar happened when I bought 4 lbs from a local seafood store and got 3 lbs 1 oz. of actual shrimp.
I know shrimpers feel they are getting screwed with seafood imports and lower prices for their fresh shrimp but screwing the customer like this is not good when they can pass the word on to potential customers. Annnd... on top of that the woman tells me she gave me an "extra pound over what I paid for"!
I watched their scale and it did say I got over 16 pounds but I know scales can be screwed with too.
So just a word of caution when buying fresh seafood by the pound that you're most likely getting screwed by sellors. If you find an honest seafood purveyor stick with them!
I know shrimpers feel they are getting screwed with seafood imports and lower prices for their fresh shrimp but screwing the customer like this is not good when they can pass the word on to potential customers. Annnd... on top of that the woman tells me she gave me an "extra pound over what I paid for"!
I watched their scale and it did say I got over 16 pounds but I know scales can be screwed with too.
So just a word of caution when buying fresh seafood by the pound that you're most likely getting screwed by sellors. If you find an honest seafood purveyor stick with them!
This post was edited on 3/12/17 at 5:00 pm
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Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:04 pm to Cajunate
They probably weighed your shrimp with some of the ice they were sitting in. You gotta make sure they pick out the ice.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:07 pm to Cajunate
I've never purchased from Sellors.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 1:43 pm to Cajunate
Make sure they pick out the ice. If it's a scale issue, they can be temporarily shut down by the department of agriculture weights and measures. If you feel they were in violation, report them. It is highly illegal to frick with scales.
This post was edited on 3/12/17 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 3/12/17 at 2:32 pm to Cajunate
15 lbs of shrimp wet dripping water will only be about 14 lbs when all the water drains off.
plus ice gets mixed in at times to skew things
every where I buy shrimp they go "over" to compensate for this. I buy 10 lbs the scale reads right at 10 3/4 -11 lbs before they bag it.
if you aren't being treated fairly go somewhere else and always watch what the scale is reading when empty before you ask for anything, it should be just under zero or you aren't getting fair weight.
another tip is to smell the shrimp and/or water, if you catch even the slightest hint of bleach then the shrimp is old. its a well known trick to keep old shrimp "looking" pretty buy adding some bleach to the water. another tip is if some of the heads are starting to fall or lift off of the shrimp body they are not fresh
plus ice gets mixed in at times to skew things
every where I buy shrimp they go "over" to compensate for this. I buy 10 lbs the scale reads right at 10 3/4 -11 lbs before they bag it.
if you aren't being treated fairly go somewhere else and always watch what the scale is reading when empty before you ask for anything, it should be just under zero or you aren't getting fair weight.
another tip is to smell the shrimp and/or water, if you catch even the slightest hint of bleach then the shrimp is old. its a well known trick to keep old shrimp "looking" pretty buy adding some bleach to the water. another tip is if some of the heads are starting to fall or lift off of the shrimp body they are not fresh
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:18 pm to Cajunate
Funny you should mention this. Friday I bought 3.1 lbs of large gulf shrimp at Cpt.Averys, our local fresh seafood outlet. Cpt. Avery's has fairly recently changed from a guy that ran it well for many years to his son and some new faces. I have heard some complaints about a drop in quality, but haven't really noticed any myself. So anyway, I bought my shrimp, got home and took them out. This isn't 3lbs of shrimp I say. These bastards shorted me. Cpt. Averys HAS gone to shite I say. This can't be more that 2lbs, Im gonna call and raise hell. So I weigh them to find out exactly how bad they shorted me. 3.1 lbs is what it read on my digital scale.
This post was edited on 3/12/17 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 3/12/17 at 4:45 pm to Cajunate
Which vendor did you go to? If they cheated you put them on blast here. You know the power of tigerdroppings.
Posted on 3/13/17 at 6:13 am to Cajunate
That's why I buy directly from the fisherman. Most of the people on the seafood lot aren't fisherman, they just the middle man.
Between me and my friends and family I buy about 1,200-1,500 pounds of shrimp a year from the same guy over the last 10 years or so. In that time me nor any of the people I got shrimp foe ever felt slighted.
Find you a fisherman to buy from. With facebook groups and whatnot, they are pretty easy to find.
Between me and my friends and family I buy about 1,200-1,500 pounds of shrimp a year from the same guy over the last 10 years or so. In that time me nor any of the people I got shrimp foe ever felt slighted.
Find you a fisherman to buy from. With facebook groups and whatnot, they are pretty easy to find.
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