Last month the Brooklyn Heights Key Food got some bad press after the supermarket sold some D’Artagnan chicken that was old and spoiled—the customer who bought it on May 12th said, "The ‘sell by’ date on the label said May 16... But the dopes left the original ‘sell by’ sticker underneath it: May 5. Eleven days earlier." Now the very same Key Food is back in the spotlight over bad labeling once again. And this time it's personalseafood.
While shopping at the supermarket, Cobble Hill Blog spotted a package of mixed seafood containing imitation crab, squid, shrimp, and mussels. The label? "Fresh Pulpo Octopus." And this week a Brooklyn Paper reporter found a package of "Easy Peel Jumbo Shrimp," which contained "just one shrimp mixed in with all that extraneous seafood." When confronted, a manager promptly told a subordinate, "There have been problems with the labels—we need to fix them right now. This is not shrimp, it should say ‘Combination Seafood.' " It's unclear why food labeling is such a challenge over there, but what's really alarming is that people are shopping for seafood at Key Food.
