A surimi-based imitation crab product shaped like a stick, often used in sushi and seafood dishes.
From 'crab' plus 'stick.' This Japanese culinary innovation (surimi, from Japanese 'すり身') became named descriptively in English.
Crab sticks are actually made from white fish (usually pollack), not crab—they're colored with food dye to look crab-like, making them one of food's most successful identity deceptions!
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