re: Shrimp

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The best, freshest shrimp in town are sold on Airline at Tom Drive, just some lady out there with a sign that says Shrimp - she is only out there on Thurs, Fri and Sat, and when she runs out, she's closed for the day. She has the best prices and the freshest shrimp. She only takes cash. Jumbos are usually $4-4.50 per pound.

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She used to take food stamps. I've bought from her before and found I had too many pieces of driftwood, ice, junk etc...in the mix. I don't worry too much about it but a friend of mine took hers home and weighed them then removed the junk and weighed them again and she had 1.5lbs of junk. It adds up.

And for what it's worth on shrimp the head is usually about 28-30% of the weight. So in other words if not using the heads do the math to see if it is really cheaper to buy them with the heads on. Obviously this only applies where they are sold both ways.

I bought a 52 quart ice chest slammed full in Dulac a couple of weeks ago for $25.00. Nice, big and a bunch of them.