On 2016-10-02 5:14 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 02:48:07 -0400, "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 say there should be no shell in that soup or risotto...
>

I always thought the tail was left on for aesthetic purposes. The are
annoying but they look interesting. Shrimp is not as expensive as it
used to be but restaurants still tend to scrimp on them. Having to take
them out of a dish and extract the meat from the bit of tail slows you
down a little so you don't gobble the shrimp too quickly and end up
disappointed by the small portion.

As for risotto.... I had shrimp risotto in what was billed to be a very
authentic Italian restaurant in Newport Beach CA last year and the tails
were in the shrimp.