"Imitation crab" is made of REAL surimi. Surimi just means "ground
meat", in this case ground fish meat, though it can also meat pork or
whatever.

I read an article somewhere, I forget where, where they pointed out
that there is some very high-quailty imitation crab that's really good.
I read it and forgot it. Last week, a few months later, I was at a
Japanese supermarket and picked up a pound of the most expensive fake
crab they had. Most were 2 or 3 bucks this one was 6.

Last night with some really fun Vietnamese banh bao (
http://tinyurl.com/o52uyvk ), I whipped up a little faux crab salad
with Old Bay and celery on lettuce. It tasted great! It had more
texture than imitation crab usually has, and it had a more significant
flavor.

So tonight I'm making a little pasta side-dish for a pork dish, and I
intend to through a little fake crab in there just to juke it up. This
stuff is damned handy!

Back when "cutlets" stunk up the newsgroup I got a comple of pork loins
which I wished were thinner, but what the hell. The sauce that's going
on them is port wine with some creme fraiche. Easy as I can imagine and
tasty as hell.