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rcjordan

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supposedly fresh Tilapia
« on: May 01, 2017, 01:30:14 PM »
...from India??

I'm out in the sticks. The nearest port is over an hour away.  Yesterday, Louise bought 2 Tilapia filets -not frozen- at a chain supermarket (whose closest distribution center is 2 hours away).  These happened to have a point-of-origin sticker on them. India !??!

I've seen articles about shipping chicken or shrimp to China for cheap processing, but I'd assumed freezing as part of the post-processing procedure.

Considered putting this in the tech sub-forum.
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Re: supposedly fresh Tilapia
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2017, 01:56:43 PM »
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Re: supposedly fresh Tilapia
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2017, 02:00:56 PM »
>healthyandnaturalworld

Seems a bit biased, hhh.
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Re: supposedly fresh Tilapia
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2017, 03:08:28 PM »
My guess is it was processed and frozen in India and then thawed at the store. Frozen fish doesn't seem as fresh to consumers so the stores thaw it and the consumer thinks it is "fresh".

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Re: supposedly fresh Tilapia
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2017, 03:51:40 PM »
The only "fresh" tilapia I've ever seen was the kind where you go to the Asian grocery stores and it is swimming in the tanks in the back.  They use a net to pull it out and then bonk it on the head.
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