On 22/07/14 12:23, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Tom Gardner wrote:
On 22/07/14 09:53, Martin wrote:

They'duse old women to remove the shells with their teeth as it is rumoured was
normal here with shrimps here at one time.

Well, it is getting rather off-topic, but given the rate
at which I peel prawns, just /how/ do you economically
peel all the prawns we find in our food nowadays? Or even
more pointedly, the delicious North Sea brown shrimps?

The other trick, as told to me by the celebrated mud-horse
netter Brendan Sellick, is simply to eat them whole!

My teeth are pretty bad, but I eat shrimps as is, and all except the
head and tail of prawns. I baulk at doing that with langoustine,
which are spiky.

I omitted to mention that I have been known to eat shrimps
whole, except for the easy-to-remove head. But I don't really
/like/ eating toenails nor hair nor fish scales nor winkle's
operculum! Spoils the nice bits.

I do, however, often suck out the head of prawns and
langoustines and squat lobsters, and positively revel
in the tomalley.

Must stop, before I start dribbling over the keyboard.