Tampa Bay Times food critic Laura Reiley got suspicious about the claims of “farm fresh” foods served at local restaurants. She visited farms, spoke with distributors and had foods genetically tested to determine how accurate the menus were. You should not be surprised to learn what she found.
If you eat food, you are being lied to every day.
Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero wore a fitted black blazer and stilettos when she busted with her camera crew into Get Hooked, a casual seafood restaurant in Hudson that on occasion hosts micro-championship little people wrestling.
Taking co-owner John Hill by surprise, she confronted him about his “Delicious Lobster Sensation,” part of a Feb. 8 segment about the frequent fraudulence of lobster dishes.
Although the restaurant has its own fishing boats, and Hill likes to say, “Our refrigerator is the Gulf of Mexico,” its lobster roll-like sandwich is made with a commercial product that contains cheaper fish such as whiting and pollock.
“We’re selling more lobster rolls now than ever, and we’re serving the same product,” co-owner Michelle Bittaker said. “What the show forgot to tell you is that the sandwich is $9.95, with french fries and coleslaw. Nobody in America could serve a real Maine lobster roll for $9.95.”
And make sure to read the second part of the series where she details how absolutely not organic and not local the food you buy at the local organic farmers market is.
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