scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

9.9.04

you know why the caged bird sings? how nice. i know why they butterfly shrimp. warning: dissection talk ahead. don't read this before eating. Or after eating.

i hate peeling shrimp. if i'm the one buying and prepping and cooking and eating i'll spring for pre-done, every time. they're disgusting. it always reminds me of how buggy they are, with the long, trailing antennae, and the segmented body-parts, and the little hairy bits on their legs, and those tails look just like - especially the ones with the greeny-black splotches - awwwww, uck. come on. so. there were five pounds of shrimp in my fridge. they needed to be eaten. they needed to be prepped first. there were a lot of them.

and they didn't all need to be deveined. but a significant percentage of them appeared to be - pregnant. because in something like half the shrimp, - i'm assuming they have genders, - there's this little blue-spotted sac right there next to the vein. and in a large number of the shrimp with blue-spotted sacs, the blue-spotted sacs (which go for the entire length of the shrimp and go off a little to the right by the head) are full of this weird orange jelly-stuff - and it's seperate from the grit-vein, and i'm thinking to myself, aren't shrimp eggs orange? so this is either failed caviar or weird fish spooge? awwww, gross. and then i learned later that no, the fish spooge is those little white globs on their outsides. so i have both failed caviar and weird fish spooge. eeeewww. In combination with the black splotches on the fins and all the antennae and the fact that i never really learned how to do this - apparently one does it in the sink, matt says, when i'm three-quarters done and he gets home - instead of on a table with a lot of paper towels. i never learned how to do this, we never had shrimp when i was a kid. i had this massive pile of shrimp shells and antennae and spooge.

Delicate flavors are natural food essences, generally the principal amino acid of the ingredient. Shrimp eggs, crab meat, oyster sauce, fish sauce, and meat stock impart delicate flavors.

Fuck that. i'm not prepared to eat shrimp eggs. i've had caviar, more than once, but no. i never want to see shrimp in the middle of spawning again in the context of Things I Have to Deal With and/or Potentially Ingest. this is why they butterfly shrimp: that weird orange fish-eggy shit. So that normal, healthy people never have to deal with the knowledge that shrimp are these hideous, awful, buggy little creatures with fully functional reproductive systems to go right along with their grit-veins. eeeew.

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