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Follow-up post on a visit to Austrimi in North Geelong can be found here.

A ho-hum noodle joint and a lunch unlikely to be blessed by much merit or distinction.

I order the seafood mee goreng.

When it arrives, with dismay I realise I have once more neglected to ask if my ordered dish includes the dreaded seafood extender among its ingredients.

There’s a lot of it.

I fastidiously push it to one side and try to enjoy what’s left.

I depart determined to find out more about this stuff and whether any of the stories are true.

In particular, I’d like to know whether there is truth to the widely-held belief that seafood extender – and its close cousin, the crab stick – is made from tripe. This, I confess, is a significant part of my aversion to the stuff. I suspect many other folk feel the same.

Not surprisingly, I find countless references not just to seafood extender but to tripe being part of it.

Yahoo questions, a forum at Vogue, an IT forum, all sorts of people wondering the same thing as me.

I find a Kath & Kim site debating the topic before the thread descends into rampant spamming.

Even the venerable Snopes site gets in on the act.

But for all the questioning, there’s not too many answers.

Among the more enlightening is a poster at the Australian Kayak Fishing forum who seems to know what he’s talking about.

The answer, it seems, is … no, tripe is not used in the manufacture of seafood extender.

It’s an urban myth.

So now I know, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to like this, um, product all of a sudden.

But what exactly is seafood extender?

It’s surimi – a term I have not come across until my current trawling.

Turns out seafood extender, crab sticks and the like are part of a venerable – and even revered – Asian tradition, and not necessarily a nasty exercise in bulking up, as suspected by this Western mind despite the amount of Asian food I eat.

Most references I find suggest surimi is best made from pollock, although I also find plenty suggesting cheap and nasty Vietnamese catfish is imported to Australia for the same purpose.

I’m still not warming in any way to seafood extender in my noodles.

It’s flabby and tasteless, just taking up space and bringing nothing to the table at all. And I hate the food colouring that is used in a pathetic attempt to suggest this is real lobster or crab meat.

By contrast, I really like the fish cake slices that are commonly served in many Asian noodles, soups and laksas.

That product has texture and flavour, and is honest about what it is.

Ahhhh! It turns out that, too, is surimi – as are the fish balls and beef balls we’re all familiar with!

I know some people get a bit sniffy about Wikipedia – no doubt with good reason – but its surimi article seems reliable about the many different kinds of surimi and their geographical and cultural baggage.

To my surprise, I find that a major Australian producer of these sorts of products, Austrimi Seafoods, lives right in my town of employment, Geelong.

(And, yes, I’ve contacted them with a view to an interview and tour!)

The company’s product page has a brief summary of the surimi process, while the individual product pages have ingredient breakdowns.

Incredibly, the company produces three different calamari products – Kal-Rings Golden Crumbed (“A formed crumbed ring made from a combination of squid and surimi”), Squid Ring Golden Crumbed (“squid 46%”) and Squid Ring Natural (“Natural squid rings”).

All three of these look like products found in your typical fish and chips shops.

Still, despite my enjoyable and entertaining research, strong doubts linger.

For surely it is not a good thing for food to be so highly processed, mucked around with to such an extent that it resembles no more the original ingredients?

But hold on – isn’t tofu, in all its many, varied and enjoyable forms – just another form of surimi?

To be continued …

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• Sumary: Follow-up post on a visit to Austrimi in North Geelong can be found here. A ho-hum noodle joint and a lunch unlikely to be blessed by much merit or distinction. I order the seafood mee goreng. When…

• Matching Result: Seafood extender is made from tripe. It’s not an urban myth. At least, in Australia. I was told this by someone who worked at a meat processing …

• Intro: How I learned not to hate seafood extender and became fascinated with surimi Follow-up post on a visit to Austrimi in North Geelong can be found here. A ho-hum noodle joint and a lunch unlikely to be blessed by much merit or distinction. I order the seafood mee goreng. When it arrives, with dismay I realise I have once more neglected to ask if my ordered dish includes the dreaded seafood extender among its ingredients. There’s a lot of it. I fastidiously push it to one side and try to enjoy what’s left. I depart determined to find out more…

• Source: https://considerthesauce.net/2012/01/31/how-i-learned-not-to-hate-seafood-extender-and-became-fascinated-with-surimi/

• Author: medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com

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• Sumary: Definition of Seafood extender in the Medical Dictionary by The Free Dictionary

• Matching Result: A highly processed food “substrate” made of minced fish meat. Because it is nutritionally inferior (the soluble proteins are lost in processing), products made …

• Intro: Seafood extender surimi (redirected from Seafood extender)Also found in: Dictionary. surimi A highly processed food “substrate” made of minced fish meat.Because it is nutritionally inferior (the soluble proteins are lost in processing), products made with surimi are listed as imitation food. It is primarily composed of pollock, and is blended with other foods (e.g., crabmeat) to impart flavour, or added as a filler for more expensive foods.Segen’s Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

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• Author: poseidonseafood.com.au

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• Matching Result: Description. Imagination crab meat great for Seafood salad mixes also called surimi and usualy used to make a mock crab salad.

• Intro: Seafood Extender (Imatation Crab Meat) 1kg Poseidon Seafoods Search for: About Us Shop Specials My Account Logout Contact 0 items – $0.00 Account $10.00 Seafood Extender (Imatation Crab Meat) 1kg quantity Categories: Crayfish/Crabs, Food service Description Reviews (0) Description Imagination crab meat great for Seafood salad mixes also called surimi and usualy  used to make a mock crab salad. Reviews There are no reviews yet. Be the first to review “Seafood Extender (Imatation Crab Meat) 1kg” You must be logged in to post a review. Related products Frankfurts 11 inch 3KG PKTS $29.00 Add to cart Frozen fries (chips) 2.5kg…

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• Sumary: 1 Kilogram Net Weight extender seafood salad Ingredients: Surimi 55%, [White Fish Meath, Emulsifier (450,451), Sugar, Egg White], Water, Wheat Starch, Modified Tapioca Starch, Sugar, Salt, Soybean Oil, Crab Extract 0.80% [Contain Fish, Crustacean, Soy Sauce (Soy, Wheat), Flavour Enhancer (635)], Flavour Enhancer (621),

• Matching Result: 1 Kilogram Net Weight extender seafood salad Ingredients: Surimi 55%, [White Fish Meath, Emulsifier (450451), Sugar, Egg White], Water, Wheat Starch, …

• Intro: Frozen Crab Extender Seafood Salad Mix1 Kilogram Net Weight extender seafood salad Ingredients: Surimi 55%, [White Fish Meath, Emulsifier (450,451), Sugar, Egg White], Water, Wheat Starch, Modified Tapioca Starch, Sugar, Salt, Soybean Oil, Crab Extract 0.80% [Contain Fish, Crustacean, Soy Sauce (Soy, Wheat), Flavour Enhancer (635)], Flavour Enhancer (621), Egg White, Cellulose Powder (460ii), Calcium Carbonate (170), Soy Protein, Natural Colours (120,160c), Artificial Crab Flavour 0.08%, Ribonucleotide (635), Titanium Dioxide (171). Product of Thailand

• Source: https://zagseafood.com.au/products/thailand-frozen-crab-flavoured-seafood-salad-mix-by-33-brand

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• Sumary: Richard Cornish attempts to answer your vexing culinary problems each week.

• Matching Result: Sometimes they are called fish sticks, seafood extender and even “seafood highlighter”, a name that sounds like a bizarre iridescent …

• Intro: What are crabsticks made of? Richard Cornish March 6 2017 Faking it: Crabstick sushi rolls. Photo: iStock Are crabsticks made from tripe? L. Pearce You have been reading fake news, No. Crabsticks do not contain tripe. They contain fish. You may call them crabsticks however, like a Gold Coast con artist, they are also known by many other names. Sometimes they are called fish sticks, seafood extender and even “seafood highlighter”, a name that sounds like a bizarre iridescent fish-pen.The Japanese name is surimi and surimi is big business. Surimi manufacturing takes lean fresh fish or lean fish by product and…

• Source: https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/news/what-is-surimi-and-why-is-it-big-business-in-japan-20170301-gunwp6

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• Sumary: Sometimes called “the hot dog of the sea,” imitation crab is a popular ingredient in dishes like seafood salads, crab cakes or California sushi rolls. This article explains everything you need to know about imitation crab.

• Matching Result: Sometimes called “the hot dog of the sea,” imitation crab is a popular ingredient in dishes like seafood salads, crab cakes or California …

• Intro: What Is Imitation Crab and Should You Eat It?Chances are, you’ve eaten imitation crab — even if you didn’t realize it.This crab stand-in has become popular over the past few decades and is commonly found in seafood salad, crab cakes, California sushi rolls and crab rangoons. In short, imitation crab is processed fish meat — in fact, it’s sometimes called “the hot dog of the sea.” However, you may still wonder what it’s made from and whether it’s healthy.This article explains everything you need to know about imitation crab.Imitation crab is made from surimi — fish flesh that has been…

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• Sumary: I know that seafood sticks are generally made from “surimi” – a processed stuff including white fish as its main ingredient. But I have read that seafood extender is also made from tripe. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Google wasn’t too much help: a lot of rumours and questions, but not a lot of facts.

• Matching Result: I know that seafood sticks are generally made from “surimi” – a processed stuff including white fish as its main ingredient.

• Intro: Is seafood extender ever made from tripe?

• Source: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-seafood-extender-ever-made-from-tripe/315144