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[[File:Langostino de Sanlúcar a la plancha IMGP3911.JPG|thumb|267px|A grilled langostino]]
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== Restaurant labeling controversies ==
In March 2006, [[Long John Silver's]] garnered controversy by offering a dish they called "Buttered Lobster Bites" without making it clear in its advertising that these were made from "langostino lobster."<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/04/politics/main2059973.shtml?source=RSSattr=Business_2059973|title= Taking Aim At 'Impostor Lobster'|accessdate=October 30, 2007 |publisher=[[CBS News]] |date=October 4, 2006}}</ref> The [[Federal Trade Commission]] ultimately launched an investigation into deceptive advertising practices by the chain, because [[Food and Drug Administration]] regulations require that anyone marketing langostino as lobster must place the qualifier "langostino" adjacent to the word "lobster," and Long John Silver's not only failed to do this, but ran a television commercial making use of an American lobster in a manner that the Commission concluded was contributing to the misperception that the product was American lobster.<ref name=Engle2009>{{cite web|last1=Engle|first1=Mary Kolb|title=Closing Letter to Phillip Allen, Esq. Counsel to Long John Silver's|url=https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/closing_letters/long-john-silvers/090623lobsterclosingletter.pdf|publisher=Federal Trade Commission|accessdate=1 June 2015|date=June 24, 2009}}</ref> Upon being contacted by the
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge made no decisions in April 2006 on the matter when a class-action lawsuit was brought against [[Rubio's|Rubio's Restaurants, Inc.]], for selling "lobster burrito" and "lobster taco" that were in fact made with squat lobster.<ref name="Fish fraud">{{cite web |url=http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/files/pdf-global/07CSlangWC.pdf |title=Fish fraud: no matter what you call it, 'squat' isn't lobster |author=Catherine Schmidt |date=2007 |work=Maine Sea Grant College Program |publisher=[[University of Maine]] |accessdate=August 5, 2011}}</ref>
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