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Wife has been working on behalf of a Japanese shellfish company and their team in Boston at the Worldwide Seafood Expo the past few days. The company she is repping has tons of different products, many farmed but others wild caught. Their main products are a variety of scallops, most already shucked and sold in the raw form, but also with some prepared as in smoked, dried or breaded for deep frying.








The BCEC is kind of a large venue, with over a half million square feet for vendors, distributors, wholesalers, retailers including of course, restaurants.





Today is her last day working with this particular client, and is with the team today in New Bedford to meet with some local scallop fishermen, aquaculture types, wholesalers and distributors. New Bedford was, as many know, a monster in the whaling industry for many, many years.




So, she was telling me she was sure that she'd be gifted a token package of scallops to take home after the event concluded. Well, she wasn't exactly wrong, but the 'token' gift ended up being more than 100 pounds of premium seafood. Other Japanese vendors who weren't planning on taking any of their products back with them came out in droves to offer her to take freebies home. Canned stuff, large filet of wild caught buri (one of my favorite fish to eat), smoked salmon, dried fish products. If the stuff wasn't gifted away, it'd have to have been chucked in the garbage. The food products displayed at the event cannot be sold, only shown and sampled/gifted at no cost to attendees and other vendors. The other option that was put out by the venue management was that they could donate it to local homeless shelters--at their expense and time, in crappy neighborhoods. Yeah, uh, no...

Had we more freezer space and I was greedier, I could have hauled home another hundred pounds that was offered, but the wife politely declined and assured the scallop gang and others that their treating her and her family to a literal pile of premium Japanese seafood, gratis, was incredibly generous and appreciated. I was rather shocked when asking about prices of each product and Mrs. KG said that we had taken home well over $2500 worth. Family members and neighbors and friends have already reaped the benefits of being good to us, so we always try to be good back. She's already been held for next year. Not sure I can make 80 pounds of scallops disappear in the next 362 days, but we're gonna' find out!

You're like a guy with a new truck or trailer - guaranteed to have a pile of "friends" come out of the woodwork and they all open with the same line "Hey, I was wondering..."


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Good snag. I'm not a seafood person but I recognize a haul when I see one.

Sweet!

That's better than going fishing with a tackle box full of DuPont sinkers!

I love scallops and most seafood! That's a load of loot you have there.

Pepper's ready for some,

Bison + scallops hmmm

Nice haul for sure.

Need to hit Costco for 2 gallons tartar sauce.

Ultimate surf and turf!

Enjoy! Sure looks good..

Heckuva Haul!

I'd give anything to partake of dinner with you guys, and share some good conversation!

Maybe I should visit sooner than July, lol.

Dang nice haul for sure!

Oh man…..!

Beautiful.

Great haul!!!

I've never been a fan of scallops but I don't think I've ever had good quality ones. Those look worth a try.

Bb

Damn, nice score!


I am envious of your delicious stash.




We used to get wild frozen (Alaskan)scallops from a traveling fish truck but they recently got too pricey.

I want to say they were $35/lb, but they are good eating!

Lots of fake scallops out there. Real and fresh make a big difference in texture and taste.

They make fake scallops from stingray meat...

They also sell little dinky farm raised version from China.



My buddy found us a 'deal' through a restaurant supplier.

Total crap, live and learn.