re: Restaurants that serve shrimp/crawfish with vein in... acceptable?

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I guarantee that I could do a blind taste test with 10 vein in and 10 deveined and you wouldn't do better than 50-50...FACT

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I must be one of the 50%

The grit is always a dead giveaway, and yes there is a taste difference, but it depends what the shrimp is being used for. If I'm plating up an app of two or three beautiful jumbo Gulf shrimp, I'm going to want those babies absolutely clean. If there's small shrimp/crawfish tossed into pasta, salad or poboy, it would be ludicrous to pick out every vein.