Recently stopped caring about removing the shells on shrimp and I just eat them with the shell on.
Does anyone else do this?
No it’s gross
Yes I do
Depends on how they are cooked. I hate popcorn because I always end up with little bits of hull Stu k in my throat. Same goes for shrimp. If it’s cooked well enough that that doesn’t happen, I’m fine to eat them
Yea sure. I eat the banana peels too. Idk why people look at me like I’m a weirdo.
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Shrimp tails if they’re fried.
Yes, and tails too depending on how difficult it is to eat them.
i knew a guy making a million a year by buying shrimp shells from a food processor for practically nothing and grinding them into dust and selling them as protein powder for gym dudes for $40/bottle.
twitches in FDA
It’s got the Cadmium bodies crave.
I mean, would it work as protein powder?
it is protein, and it sold like crazy. i cant speak to it being a good idea or quality.
Your body has a hard time digesting them so it will likely give you a hell of a stomach ache/bad shits if you keep doing that. Just take them off man.
Noted, I haven’t actually experienced any issues personally but I’ll monitor for any abnormalities. Dropping carbs has actually been amazing on my digestive system.
I have only tried eating the tails of fried shrimp but I have never had any stomach issues for years caused by this. It does have the bonus of grossing out my kids when I do it.
I’m always worried about cutting my tongue on the shells, though that worry mainly surfaces when eating sushi. They can be sharp, and the tongue does not seem like a fun place for a paper cut.
When it’s crispy fried shrimp, yes. Any other time, no.
Just due to texture alone, shrimp and other crustacean shells are a hard pass for me.
It never occurred to me that the shells would be edible. I mean, I don’t eat clam or oyster shells.
No. I did switch to eating larger shrimp so there’s less work involved.
There are ways of cooking shrimp that break the shell down to the point that it’s more like crispy salmon skin.
There are ways of cooking shrimp
That’s kinda when I said ascrew it and just ate the shell. It was some Chinese style shrimp with the heads still on. Took the head off and my fingers were so messy, I just couldn’t be bothered peeling the whole thing so I just ate it and haven’t stopped since.
But the head is delicious.
No, but I do something similar. I eat corn on the cob without unwrapping the husk.
They can be used for flavoring but I would not eat the shells.
