Foodies will remember this item which used to be a hit in the eighties - with many still loving to tuck into a humble crab stick from time to time. But this revelation might change your mind as people are just finding out how they are made.
It comes after a crabstick factory based in Thailand showed the process of making the fishy sticks - and some people have vowed to never eat them again after watching the video, reports The Mirror. Sold widely around the UK, the savoury sticks are a go-to for some seafood lovers, but after a video was posted, people are disgusted and are now branding it a 'fish hot-dog'.
Starting off as concrete-like substance, the crab meat goes through a range of processes, before it is dyed red and white. The frozen fish meat blocks are put through a machine and crushed up to create a grey paste, before travelling along a conveyor belt where salt and other flavourings are added.
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It all becomes very dull looking, and is a far cry from what we're used to seeing on the supermarket shelves. But thanks to a user posting the video on Reddit, it's hard to look at them in the same way.
The fishy mix is then blended with ice as well as vegetable oil and sugars. Workers are seen putting it through a tube which transforms it into a huge whipped, grey pile of paste, before it gets moulded into strips and dyed the distinct colour and shape.
Claiming to be the world's largest, this factory is said to produce 40,000 tons of fish sticks per year - four times heavier than the Eiffel Tower - and sold to more than 37 countries. People have been quick to comment on the video, with one person dubbing the sticks as "hot dogs of the sea". Another said "the only ingredient I could identify was the ice"
Meanwhile, someone else jibed: "Everything ok hun? You've hardly touched your grey" due to the colour of the original paste. Another person said: "Bet that place smells wonderful"
A third added: "If the title hadn't specified they were making crabsticks, or in fact any type of food, I would've gotten to 1:38 before I realised that they weren't making some sort of industrial building material."
