re: Shrimp shells...do you eat 'em,too?

i've heard of deep frying the legs and calling them spiders...but never met anyone who ate the whole damn shrimp. thats not hard on your digestive tract?

OTIS, I got your back. I eat them from time to time when someone doesn't know how to cook them and it is a pain to peel. When I was younger, I made something similar to dried shrimp. My mom would give me the very small shrimp when she was cooking, I would leave the shell on it, cover them in salt and put them in the toaster oven on high for a little while. Once they were dried, I would tear them up.

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But I just like the damn shells

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My grandfather used to do a good bit of shrimping when I was younger and I would go with him sometimes. He had a Vietnamese helper that would tag along. He would eat them right out the water. He would rip the head off and the stinger off the tail and go to town.

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Vietnamese

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And all this time I thought I was Scotch/Irish with a splash of German...do like me some Vietnamnese cookin' though...explains alot.

:about to see the light: I used to just eat the shells on med to small. My BBQ'd shrimps last night were around 8-10 count...my plates were clean... (and I sucked dem heads,too)

I always eat the shells on BBQ shrimp. That's the way my family has always done it.

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and I also eat the tail when I'm eating fried shrimp

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Me too

And if they are boiled with head on, I eat the fat just like a crawfish!

Duff on Food Network eats fried shrimp heads.

Fried Shrimp Heads

Damn, Otis!

Absolutely not........too much fiber for me!