Many love to tuck into a crab stick from time to time, despite the snack decreasing in popularity over the years. But those on the fence about the food have had their mind made up after realising how they are actually made.
A factory in Thailand recently shared a video detailing the process the fishy sticks go through before they hit the shelves, with lots of viewers vowing never to eat them again after watching the clip.
The savoury snacks are available in lots of stores across Scotland, the UK and the rest of the world, with seafood lovers often opting to add them to their trolley. However, the recent footage has even left some fans disgusted, with the sticks now being branded a "fish hot-dog", reports The Mirror.
The sticks begin as a concrete-like mass, with the crab meat going through a range of processes before it is dyed red and white.
The frozen fish substance makes its way through a machine as it is crushed up to create a grey paste. The paste then travels along a conveyor belt where it is seasoned with salt and other flavourings.
The substance becomes very dull looking - a lot different to what we are used to spotting on the supermarket shelves.
The fishy mix is then blended with ice, vegetable oil and sugars before being places into tubes to transform it into a huge whipped, grey pile of paste.
Finally moulded into strips, the sticks are then dyed the distinct white and red colours before being wrapped up and packaged ready for stores.
The factory, claiming to be the world's largest, produces 40,000 tonne of fish sticks each year. That is around four times heavier than the Eiffel Tower, with the snacks going on to be sold in over 37 countries.
After viewing the video on online forum site Reddit, one called the sticks "hot dogs of the sea", with another stating "the only ingredient I could identify was the ice"
A third jibed: "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", said another.
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