Claws Out Over Zabar's Mislabeled Lobster Salad

Claws Out Over Zabar's Mislabeled Lobster Salad

August 11, 2011 8:49am | By Leslie Albrecht, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

Zabar's says it's changing the name of its "lobster salad" to "seafare salad" at the request of the Maine Lobster Council. (West Side Rag)

UPPER WEST SIDE — The crustacean cops say there's something fishy about the lobster salad at Zabar's.

The Maine Lobster Council recently asked the iconic Broadway deli to stop labeling the dish as "lobster," because it's actually made with crayfish and not the premium-priced ocean dweller.

The slap, first reported by West Side Rag, came to light when a columnist from the New Orleans Times-Picayune sampled the seafood salad — as a bagel topping, no less — while visiting Zabar's from the Big Easy.

The Cajun journalist thought he tasted something familiar, and he was right: Though labeled "lobster salad," crayfish is the first and only seafood on the product's ingredient list. Crayfish is a distant freshwater relative to lobster found on Southern menus.

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