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Yeah, those southeast asian shrimp forests have really begun to mature into full production, and because they were planted with dwarf-hybridized shrimp trees, they are much easier to pick now.
The Jewish God changed His rules on treyf. Now shrimp fried rice, Swedish meatballs, and German babies are just fine by Him, allewai zol men dos nit darfen.
My uneducated guess would be because it's always served at those ubiquitous "all you can eat" buffets. People go ga-ga over the unlimited shrimp and make pigs of themselves. I sure as hell don't eat more shrimp. So someone's making up for the shrimp that I don't eat. Have at it, they're all yours.
I laughed at the answers there that said it was because of Forrest Gump. How hilarious if it were true...
I think it's because of the new, cheaper, larger tiger shrimp--they look great in the store, especially next to the small, more expensive pink or white shrimp. Oh, sure, they don't taste nearly as good, but do most folks even notice?
If you're a vegetarian and wondering if you should eat shrimp out of ethical concerns, do you also stomp on bugs? If you kill bugs you might as well eat shrimp, because they're not much more advanced.
I don't eat them anymore cause they just don't have the same old tasty they had when we was younguns.
I remember when...
We had a little aluminum boat that would fit 6 people all croweded up together. Attached to it was a put-put motor. We'd weigh anchor and motor over the intracoastal waterway to the tidal marshes at low tide. Out would come the seine net and with a person on each end, we'd troll the rivlets, scoop up enough of the shrimpies for dinner, sort out the other critters, and then go back across to clean and eat within a few hours.
My Mom would put them in the sink and run fresh water over them (which they found offensive) and they'd jump out onto the floor.
These things they sell in the markets today just don't taste the same.
Plus, I've been diving with sea creatures and have a hard time eating all them now since I know more about their lives...
Leave it to time, age and education to ruin something.
I'm a "vegetarian" (or something. no farmed meat.) but I eat shrimp because they're yummy and hard enough to source that I never know if they're farmed or not, so I just say fuck it and eat 'em. Good source of protein, low fat.
Burhanistan: My positions aren't nearly that well developed. I still haven't decided if I'm not going to eat bacon or the skin off roasted chickens (both of which are possibly too delicious to give up entirely). Mostly this is a response to seeing Bodyworlds and realizing just how much human butt looks like cow butt.
My layman's take on the biblical prohibitions of shrimp and other invertebrate sea critters: they don't have a liver to filter their systems like fish or other vertebrates do. Therefore, they could be seen as unclean, especially in the Mosiac sense.
Shrimp are $1.75 to $2.00 a pound, most of the year, here. We love 'em, and we each eat about 10 pounds a month.
Whole fryers are still regularly on sale for $0.69 a pound around here, so cost isn't the whole issue, but a belly full of steamed shrimp and beer is still a $5 high, where I live.
Fuzzbean, eating humans just isn't a smart thing to do, unless you're certain of their diet and lifestyle.
Cows aren't going to sneak off and stuff themselves on cheap booze and Taco Bell when you aren't expecting it. As such, they're a much more reliable food source.
I figure in a few years I can start a baby farm. Organically raised, free-range, vegetarian-fed babies. Should be tender, tasty, and delicious--a taste sensation the whole family can enjoy! Try one today!
I know my increase in the eating of shrimps is due to the Fourth Street Shrimp Store in St. Pete., FL. I could eat enough there in one night to cover my yearly allowance of shrimp. I can't go more than a couple of times a year (if that) - I live in Chicago, so we only go when we're on vacation. You're lucky that I don't live down the street from the place - or there would be no shrimps for you!
I also like to say 'shrimps' even though it's not proper
I'm reasonably certain that I actually eat less shrimp than I have in the past. Not through conscious effort or anything - that's just the way it's worked out.
No need to thank me; I'm just doing my part to skew the data.
I remember that when I was a kid, shrimp were considered a luxury item, so much that I only got to eat it at home on my birthday when my mom would fry it up with butter and garlic and mix it with linguine. Now, I'll order peel & eat shrimp in a pub grub place as quickly as chicken fingers if the mood hits me.
I was shocked last week, when visiting my dad and stepmom, they casually brought up that they eat shrimp a couple of times a week. I personally have it one or two times a month, usually in asian food of some sort. They just grill it. I think it's because my stepmom grew up in the country from a big family and shrimp to her = a fancy lifestyle.
Holy crap! I'd read a couple of things recently about Google's indexing being soopa fast these days (I think Matt mentioned it on one of the podcasts and Google's Matt Cutts mentions it here, but that is very fast. Eleven hours from posting to the Google home page!
Yeah, I've noticed this for metachat, too, lately.
So if you make one of those drunken, late-night TMI posts and wake up the next morning and say omgIDIDN'TPOSTTHATDIDI?PLEASETELLMEIDIDN'TPOSTTHAT! And then sheepishly email and beg to have it removed... Better do it fast!
It's because of the availability of cheap imported shrimp. There's even an experimental options market in shrimp futures, which is unusual for a commodity that requires refrigeration.
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