They call it imitation crab meat. You know, those chunks of white stuff with pink edges that you find in your supermarket’s fish or meat case or made into “seafood” salad in the deli department. But ...

Have you ever ordered a seafood salad or crab sushi and thought, "It tastes different than usual..."? You were probably eating surimi, the enigmatic "fake crab" that has been appearing on our plates ...

Somewhere between the potato salad and the cole slaw at the grocery there`s usually a tangle of cheese and crab and mayo called seafood salad. In most cases, though, the crab isn`t really crab at ...

Imitation crab is made from a white paste that's mostly ground up Alaskan pollock, a white fish shown here by the dozens.Brian Vander Brug / Contributor / Getty Images Imitation crab — aka krab — is ...

Marketed as crab sticks in the 1980s and rebranded as surimi, the Japanese word for mashed white fish, the oblong Seafood Sticks with their bright fascia pink exterior are instantly recognizable on ...