Sushi scam: Are we getting what we're paying for?

According to The New York Times, a couple of high school students played inspector gadget with sushi as their subject and found evidence pointing to a fishy scam. Apparently there's a pretty prevalent game of "bait and switch" going on where grocery stores and sushi restaurants are tricking their customers into believing that they are getting what they order when they are really being served a fake. Some of these fast ones include prawning, er...pawning off tilipia as white tuna and secretly substituting the less popular cod fish for the more in demand, red snapper. It seems that this deception is not always done intentionally by the restaurant and groceries stores as they are sometimes deceived by their source. [-The New York Times]

This is a serious buzz kill. First the mercury scare and now fishy fake-outs?

Would you be able to tell if someone was screwing with your sashimi?

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