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April 11, 2005
Farm-a-Lox
After reading up on seafood a while back I decided against eating salmon since most of it is farmed and has PCBs. It was hard to pass up my usual plain bagel with lox spread at La Bagel Delight but I'm managing. Since lox is such a staple for brunch in New York, though, a lot of people are being duped by retailers selling farmed salmon as "wild" -- a safer, but hard-to-come-by alternative to the farmed stuff. This weekend the NYT published a great article about this. The tagline is "Tests performed for The Times on salmon sold as wild by eight New York City stores showed that the fish at six of the eight were farm raised." There's a little blurb about each store's lame explanation. This one's pretty classic:
A whole salmon sold to this reporter as wild from Slavin's in the Fulton Fish Market was pulled from a box marked "farmed Canada.""I know you are looking at the label, but believe me," the clerk at Fulton said. "Don't pay any attention to the label."
Yeah, sure it SAYS it's farmed but you listen to me, okay? I'm telling you. It's wild. Trust me. Okay? You wanna argue wit me?
Posted by csageday at April 11, 2005 12:30 AM