Chinese business have no shame

[Kai]

Re China re-branding - it all sounds so familiar c.f. post-war Japan. I remember a story that they renamed an island Usa, so they could brand things "made in USA", but that may be an urban legend.

Reminds me of the old "100% australian beef"
In mcdonald burgers story

 

[Tathradj]

I recently bought 2 packets of frozen fish for a quick meal last week.
Barramundi, Buety not ******* or bassa.

Found out later that the Asians have a fish called Barramundi. I
wonder what it was fed on.
Yes, I re read the packaging, processed in Vietnam.
There is a poo fight which so rightly should be
to have the name removed from imported processed fish.

Taking into consideration they are going as far as South America
and also encroaching on other's fishing grounds.

 

[Goldfreak]

Barramundi as a species don't just live in Australia. The name certainly sounds Australian though.

 

[Mr Magoo]

I like you goldierocks. Which is why I'm not going to waste my time on your insistence at being right & the sole arbiter of every topic in the forum, and your cut and paste gatherings from various websites and graphs to help achieve that end.

I have had an association with Australia Post for almost 14 years, including as a successful Litigant against a behemoth that thought it could hide behind the government. I sold Terms of Trade for a Law firm long enough to know how meaningless the crap that you are cutting/pasting & linking to is, and still currently along with my wife, I am the Licensee/owner of an Australia Post retail store. Now please, back to Geology.

:Y: :Y: Any where I can double like.
Not that I love Aus post.

 

[Outback]

The latest crap coming out of China is 40 tons of Aussie live rock lobsters are now sitting on a Chinese tarmac to spoil !
They want them tested for heavy metals or any reason the bugger us up .

If I was in control that would be the last lobsters they ever get from us . :argh:

Jack

 

[Smoky bandit]

Barra is so over rated..
Tastes just like a large river mullet :N:

 

[hippyhunter]

Barramundi as a species don't just live in Australia. The name certainly sounds Australian though.

Barramumdi is a species of sea bass/asian perch. The word "barramumdi" is aboriginal for "large scaled fish", so barramumdi coming from vietnam is probably misleading advertising at the least. barramundi refers to asian perch caught in australian waters i'd assume technically.

 

[user 4386]

Barramundi as a species don't just live in Australia. The name certainly sounds Australian though.

Barramumdi is a species of sea bass/asian perch. The word "barramumdi" is aboriginal for "large scaled fish", so barramumdi coming from vietnam is probably misleading advertising at the least. barramundi refers to asian perch caught in australian waters i'd assume technically.

"Internationally, barramundi are known as Asian sea bass, giant perch or giant sea perch. They are distributed throughout coastal areas from the Persian Gulf to China and southern Japan, south to Papua New Guinea and northern Australia". It is all scientifically known as Lates calcarifer - all exactly the same species. . We simply give them the local name Barramundi - other countries give them their local names - e.g. bhetki (Bengal), chonak (Goa), pla kapong (Thailand). All exactly the same fish.

https://vietnam-fishing-barramundi....is_Barramundi_Kind_of_Fish_liveing_in_Vietnam

Probably more important to require the place of origin to be stated, as would be desirable with all food.

 

[Goldfreak]

As Australians we should be more careful with our purchases. If the Barramundi looks like this it's genuine

if it looks like this it's a bloody Chinese imposter fish

hope that's cleared it up for everybody layful:

 

[user 4485]

Under Australian law it's mandatory for retail seafood to be labelled with the country of origin.
Seafood cooked or prepared for immediate consumption, like from restaurants, takeaways, is currently exempt from this requirement. It shouldn't be!
There is a standard for the correct naming of seafood but I don't believe it's mandatory yet. Probably only followed by small, local seafood retailers?
Using the name Barramundi in the sale of fish should immediately indicate that it's fish that's been caught or farmed here in Australia. Using it to sell Sea Perch from Thailand etc. is misleading & should be illegal.

 

[Adrian ss]

Barra is so over rated..
Tastes just like a large river mullet :N:

Agreed. I would rather eat a good buffalo steak.

 

[silver]

Salt water barra's better.... not got that muddy water taste about them.

I'd rather eat a Neoceratodus forsteri(not that I can now).... same family

 

[Deepseeker]

Fosteri Lagerus tastes even better Silver :Y:

 

[numpty]

barra, the worst fish i ever ate. :awful:

flatty's in beer batter on the BBQ down the beach, fresh as and beautiful when just caught.

or a nice pan sized pinky

 

[goldtrapper]

All shellfish have "traces" of heavy metals.

 

[Deepseeker]

All shellfish have "traces" of heavy metals.

 

[Davent]

Barramundi as a species don't just live in Australia. The name certainly sounds Australian though.

Barramumdi is a species of sea bass/asian perch. The word "barramumdi" is aboriginal for "large scaled fish", so barramumdi coming from vietnam is probably misleading advertising at the least. barramundi refers to asian perch caught in australian waters i'd assume technically.

"Internationally, barramundi are known as Asian sea bass, giant perch or giant sea perch. They are distributed throughout coastal areas from the Persian Gulf to China and southern Japan, south to Papua New Guinea and northern Australia". It is all scientifically known as Lates calcarifer - all exactly the same species. . We simply give them the local name Barramundi - other countries give them their local names - e.g. bhetki (Bengal), chonak (Goa), pla kapong (Thailand). All exactly the same fish.

https://vietnam-fishing-barramundi....is_Barramundi_Kind_of_Fish_liveing_in_Vietnam

Probably more important to require the place of origin to be stated, as would be desirable with all food.

You can add the Indonesian name to that list , its Kapap Putih (forgive the spelling) means white bass pronounced Cakap pooty

 

[grubstake]

Back on topic, I noticed this advert on Gumtree today which has an amusing contrast between the Aussie seller's realistic description and the Chinese manufacturer's nonsense title on the box: