Langostino: Difference between revisions

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 Atat 'Impostor Lobster'|access-date=October 30, 2007 |publisher=[[CBS News]] |date=October 4, 2006}}</ref> The [[Federal Trade Commission]] 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|access-date=1 June 2015|date=June 24, 2009}}</ref>

[[Rubio's|Rubio's Restaurants, Inc.]], settled a 2006 class-action lawsuit for selling "lobster burritos" and "lobster tacos" that were in fact made with squat lobster. The company agreed to change the name to "langostino 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 |authorfirst=Catherine |last=Schmidt |date=2007 |work=Maine Sea Grant College Program |publisher=[[University of Maine]] |access-date=August 5, 2011}}</ref><ref>https://www.npr.org/2005/07/03/4728361/testing-a-lobster-impostor-charge {{bare URL inline|date=May 2023}}</ref>