… and if you are American and just had an “Argentinian” steak – guess what? It was almost certainly from Australia or New Zealand. According to this The Wall Street Journal article American restaurants and food shops seem to be able to get away with falsifying the origins of all kinds of gourmet foods.
Wasabi? “that green lump beside the sushi plate is almost always nothing more than horseradish, mustard and bright green food coloring that costs a few dollars a pound. Made from a gnarled root that is tough to cultivate, true wasabi costs about $70 a pound. ”
Key lime pie? “almost never the real thing. Because real Key limes are yellow, a true Key lime pie isnt even lime green.”mortgage credit loan 125 secondmortgage nationwide home loans 1st20 loan home 80 20 calculator20 loan 80 calculator mortgageeducation payday 29 loan 20in 2004 advance cash loanloans 24 7 easy cashin 2nd loan california mortgage Map
Re: key lime pie, tell me about it. Here in Florida, you’ll find real key lime pie, with the correct yellow color (delicious, too). Yet in years past, when some friends were working as food servers, they’d have at least a couple of stories per week about some idiot tourist who would order a slice of key lime pie, then get huffy about it not being lime-green and insisting (as if they’d know) that what they were being served wasn’t “real” key lime pie. I understand some restaurants got so many complaints about it that they started adding green food coloring to their pies to forestall this! (I don’t think that’s the case anymore, or else I simply eat at higher-class restaurants now; also, some places clearly print on their menus that real key limes are yellow.)
Comment by CT — 2 January 2004 @ 6:18 pm