MaryL wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 10/2/2016 1:48 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> > When it comes to shrimp cocktail of course the shell is left on the
> > tail as a handle, but shrimp in soup or risotto? How are you
> > supposed to eat shrimp like that in soup? You have to pick it out
> > and shell it, then drop it back in the soup to eat it? That is
> > disgusting and ridiculous. I just had this problem with risotto in
> > a pretty good restaurant and it's happened before with soup. They
> > could just as easily have removed the whole shell. What say you?
> >
> I wouldn't eat it. In fact, I would probably return it (and that is
> very unusual for me).
>
> MaryL

Sad smile, then you'd be missing a treat. But that's ok. Places I
have been where it is served that way in a soup, don't mind if you do
not eat the tails. Often enough, others at the table do like them and
they are shared to a center plate so others can have more. (I'd be one
snagging extras).

Carol

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