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I’m torn about how to eat shrimp


Still Me

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for y’all who don’t know...I have a culinary degree...so I KNOW how to cook shrimp...

but...this is my issue

i think shrimp are beautiful when cooked whole...I mean head and tail....

but I’ve never known how to eat the little fucker...it seems really weird to eat the head...especially with those fuckin whiskers......I’ll eat the tail no problem...

and I don’t have a problem eating sweet breads...like the green innards of crab and lobster...or the brain gook that you suck out of a crawfish head (my fave btw)...and for the most part I fear no food...hell I’ll try anything...but those heads man....the heads....

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3 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

I mean, I was about to mention sushi . . .

Sushi is it’s own demon....I’m just talking about eating shrimp heads....

but speaking of sushi...I love spider rolls...that fried whole juvenile blue crab is delicious 

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It’s not like the idea of it repulses me....I think my only deterant is those little whiskers....I just kinda figure they’d be like the texture of hair...and by that alone would make me gag....

i like how they look why would they needs hats?

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Just now, Derrick Foreal said:

I've eaten shrimp religiously all my life and I've never seen anyone actually eat the heads.....I've seen them floating in some people's gumbo, but you don't eat them.  This is new on me and we use to have huge live shrimp boils all the time.

See I watch all these cooking shows on Netflix...and I’m watching this Korean one right now but it seems the general theme for the shrimp is to eat the head...which I find intriguing yet offputting 

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Just now, Nabloom said:

If you're not eating the heads, you're not eating shrimp. It's as simple as that 

To be fair MOST establishments in the US don’t incorporate the heads into dishes...I think that it’s not entirely common in American society 

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2 minutes ago, imchapp.in said:

I always feel like I'm eating plastic when I power through the shells/tails of the shrimp. Haven't tried head-on, but I'm not in a rush to try it.

Yeah I think the same....it’s a pity too....they should snap like a good hotdog

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1 hour ago, Still Me said:

for y’all who don’t know...I have a culinary degree...so I KNOW how to cook shrimp...

but...this is my issue

i think shrimp are beautiful when cooked whole...I mean head and tail....

but I’ve never known how to eat the little fucker...it seems really weird to eat the head...especially with those fuckin whiskers......I’ll eat the tail no problem...

and I don’t have a problem eating sweet breads...like the green innards of crab and lobster...or the brain gook that you suck out of a crawfish head (my fave btw)...and for the most part I fear no food...hell I’ll try anything...but those heads man....the heads....

hold a tribunal for them all after cooking

declare them all guilty and then behead them

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1 hour ago, Still Me said:

Yeah I think the same....it’s a pity too....they should snap like a good hotdog

It is understandable because it's a part of their body's framework, but at the same time, I would've hoped it'd be at least easier to eat the tail. Most of the cooking I've been eating recently encourages me to eat the tail so I've gotten more used to it, but sometimes it feels like the fragments of tail get aggressively tough to chew through in spite of my best efforts.

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8 minutes ago, imchapp.in said:

It is understandable because it's a part of their body's framework, but at the same time, I would've hoped it'd be at least easier to eat the tail. Most of the cooking I've been eating recently encourages me to eat the tail so I've gotten more used to it, but sometimes it feels like the fragments of tail get aggressively tough to chew through in spite of my best efforts.

Agreed

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