[Sca-cooks] OP: shrimps

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:12:40 -0500 (EST), jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
> Ok, why _are_ large shrimps (prawns for non-US people) served with
> their
> stupid little tails still on? And is there a polite way to remove
> them? I
> am an absolute pig about shrimp and hate to cut the shrimp off with
> my
> knife before the tail joint (which is often a messy process
> anyway), but I
> suspect that that's the way Miss Manners says to do it.

Yes, that's what she says. I often will delicately bite through the shell 
just at the tail joint, then extract the meat from the tail with my teeth. 
It usually works if you're careful.


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Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur
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