re: Winn-Dixie really pissed me off today

I've actually talked about this to the lady behind the seafood counter at the Prairieville Winn Dixie. I was about to purchase what I assumed were fresh shrimp and she was straight up honest with me. She told me that a lot of the time they just open bags of the frozen "EZ Peel" shrimp that they sell in the frozen coolers.

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t a lot of the time they just open bags of the frozen "EZ Peel" shrimp that they sell in the frozen coolers

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I always assumed this is what they were. Same with the ground meat just being pulled out of a huge pack and repackaged like it is fresh ground.

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At most I would say they are assembled in the USA.

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Excuse the highjack, but you should peruse the federal regulations specifying when something may be labelled "Made in the USA." I'm not exaggerating too much when I say it can be labelled that way if a person in the U.S. takes a Chinese made screw and screws it into a Japanese made product.

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. I have learned what size shrimp are gulf caught shrimp and which ones are foreign/farm raised at my local Kroger

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You can't really go by size. Imports will sometimes convert their shrimp to our count system and this can throw people off. You really have to look at the country of origin carefully to tell. By law, all retailers and grocery stores must notify you or advertise country of origin when selling fresh and frozen seafood. Advertisement can be small writing on frozen but for fresh it must be visible to let the consumer know. Problem is this law is not usually enforced.

Labeling Link by Dept. of Agriculture

If you do see a kilo count then that should tell you right there that it is foreign. Usual kilo counts are:

20-30 Kilo
30-40
40-50
50-60
60-70
etc.

Domestic head-on shrimp counts are usually:

U/10
9/12 or U/12
10/15
13/15 (texas count)
16/20
21/25
26/30
31/35
36/40
40/50
50/60
60/70
70/80
80/100
100ups

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I really miss me some Off the Hook.

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Excuse the highjack, but you should peruse the federal regulations specifying when something may be labelled "Made in the USA." I'm not exaggerating too much when I say it can be labelled that way if a person in the U.S. takes a Chinese made screw and screws it into a Japanese made product.

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I'd believe you, read an article last year about how Italy's economy is being crushed by such tactics. Basically made in Italy isn't shite anymore and that is all they had to show fine craftsmanship around the world.

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Being close to campus my choices are Wal-Mart or Winn-Dixie.

It's an easy choice for me because I hate Wal-Mart

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Not much of a choice when it comes to seafood. Wait until you can get away from campus and buy some quality stuff. You can get some good quality frozen from those places for your freezer to use when can't go get fresh.

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I really miss me some Off the Hook.

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Yea me too. It was a lot more fun than what I'm doing currently.

I have some shrimp we caught frozen in the freezer. This was simply a purchase to make it easier on me which bit me in the arse. That's what happens when you get lazy

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If you could find that article, I'd love to read it, remember where it was from?

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let me check around for it. luckily I have a job that allows hours of reading articles and it was one I came across.

basically was about how the thread/fabric gets made/dyed in Italy then shipped to China to make the clothing. Then that is marketed as Made in Italy. Had a vendor and how his material was aged in a basement for a year or so....

Let me look a little and I will get back.