On Apr 16, 9:04*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> Alexm wrote:
>
> > The tiny "salad shrimp". as they a called, *remind me of little
> > worms. *I good salad should have LARGE shrimp.
>
> I lady I met last week told me a funny story about shrimp. She had lived in
> Zambia for a while and one of the domestic workers pointed out a cluster of
> caterpillars in a tree. and told her that they are waiting for them to get
> bigger and then they will gather than and eat them, claiming they are
> delicious. When harvest day came along he scooted up the tree with a pail
> and gathered up all the creepy crawlies and took them to his wife to prepare
> them. Then he came back with a plateful for her. *She made up an excuse
> about *realizing how much he treasured this delicacy and they were hardly
> enough for his own family.
>
> The next week, the guy was helping out in the kitchen as they were preparing
> for a cocktail party. *She showed him how she wanted the cocktail shrimp
> arranged on the canapés. The guy was absolutely grossed out that they would
> eat something as disgusting looking as a shrimp.

Yes, very true. It depends on what you are brought up on to a large
extent. When I was a child I was fed raw live oysters and also raw
live little neck clams on the half shell. But never squid. And never
mussels - which were looked down upon as being inferior.

Alexm