Crab sticks are enjoyable snack occasionally, despite the snack losing popularity over the years. However, those unsure on whether they like it have vowed to never eat it again after learning how they are made.
A factory in Thailand recently uploaded a video showing the process behind the fishy sticks,, The Daily Record reports.
The recent footage has even left some fans feeling sick to the stomach, with the sticks now being labelled a "fish hot-dog", reports The Mirror.
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They start as a concrete-like mass, with the crab meat going through several steps before it is dyed red and white.
It goes through a machine before it becomes a grey paste. This then travels on a conveyor belt where salt and other flavourings are added to it. It then takes a very dull shape.
The fishy mix is then blended with ice, vegetable oil and sugars before being put into tubes to alter it into a huge whipped, grey pile of paste.
In the final step shows that it is moulded into strips, then dyed, becoming the distinct white and red colours before being wrapped up and put into packaging for sale.
The factory, which alleges to be the world's largest, produces 40,000 tonne of fish sticks each year, sold in over 37 countries.
One person labelled them the "hot dogs of the sea", with another stating "the only ingredient I could identify was the ice"
A third, commenting on the Reddit video said: "Everything ok hun? You've hardly touched your grey" due to the grey colouring of the fishy paste, with a fourth saying "Bet that place smells wonderful"
"If the title hadn't specified they were making crab sticks, 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," one final comment stated.
