Wednesday Night Shrimp Festival

Found these 26/30ct headless gulf shrimp at the store today for $3.50/lb. I bought 2 pounds. Limit 3 pounds per customer.
This translates into a much smaller count(larger shrimp) , head on.
So i weighed out one pound on my scale and there were 24 swimps. Even larger than the stated count. A good deal indeed. Yes, I'm sure that were previously frozen.

I peeled, butterflied, battered and breaded them before dropping them in the deep fat fryer.
Tonnerre et e'clair!  Mai's C'est si bon,  ouais!  

Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

vege57 wrote:Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

Lol. I think I may go to town tomorrow and get 3 more pounds. And maybe 3 more, Saturday too.
That's really cheap for any size headless shrimp.

You can always tell when they've been previously frozen and treated with sodium metabisulphite cause they dont peel worth a damn.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

Lol. I think I may go to town tomorrow and get 3 more pounds. And maybe 3 more, Saturday too.
That's really cheap for any size headless shrimp.

You can always tell when they've been previously frozen and treated with sodium metabisulphite cause they dont peel worth a damn.

Ive got 30lbs of sodium meta in the shed, A while back I had the great idea of throwing a cup full of potassium permanganate crystals into the swimming pool to sterilize it, It looked great for a couple of days, Bright purple, then it slowly turned to the colour of shit and wouldn't filter out, a bit of research pointed me towards sodium meta, this cleared it until the PH was raised again then the shit came back, I was given a bit of stick from the family , it still comes up in conversation lol,

You shoulda throwed some swimp fry( baby swimp/ not the batter kind) lol in da pool!
Or you coulda told the the old lady it was good for her skin as SMBS is a preservative.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

Lol. I think I may go to town tomorrow and get 3 more pounds. And maybe 3 more, Saturday too.
That's really cheap for any size headless shrimp.

You can always tell when they've been previously frozen and treated with sodium metabisulphite cause they dont peel worth a damn.

I enjoy a nice shrimp or prawn, There are a bit pricey in NZ, they tend to be imported, I find that most things treated with meta bi, tend to have a slightly sulfurous odour ,

vege57 wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

Lol. I think I may go to town tomorrow and get 3 more pounds. And maybe 3 more, Saturday too.
That's really cheap for any size headless shrimp.

You can always tell when they've been previously frozen and treated with sodium metabisulphite cause they dont peel worth a damn.

I enjoy a nice shrimp or prawn, There are a bit pricey in NZ, they tend to be imported, I find that most things treated with meta bi, tend to have a slightly sulfurous odour ,

I've eaten fresh and frozen shrimp and prawns from all over the world. But nothing compares to a Gulf of Mexico , fresh caught, white shrimp. I like brown shrimp too, but they have a slight iodine taste some folks don't like.

I bought these fresh a while back . I think they were either U8 or 8-12 ct/lb. Head on.
I think I could only eat 10 fried.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

Lol. I think I may go to town tomorrow and get 3 more pounds. And maybe 3 more, Saturday too.
That's really cheap for any size headless shrimp.

You can always tell when they've been previously frozen and treated with sodium metabisulphite cause they dont peel worth a damn.

I enjoy a nice shrimp or prawn, There are a bit pricey in NZ, they tend to be imported, I find that most things treated with meta bi, tend to have a slightly sulfurous odour ,

I've eaten fresh and frozen shrimp and prawns from all over the world. But nothing compares to a Gulf of Mexico , fresh caught,  white shrimp. I like brown shrimp too, but they have a slight iodine taste some folks don't like.

I bought these fresh a while back . I think they were either  U8 or 8-12 ct/lb. Head on.
I think I could only eat 10 fried.

You are making me feel hungry, its 11:50 am here so lunch isn't far off,, My avocado and Vegemite on rye-bread toast isnt looking so appealing now

vege57 wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

vege57 wrote:Damn , My invitation must have got lost in the post, 10 million fraudulent votes make it to their destinations , But my invitation ends up lost under the seat lol

Lol. I think I may go to town tomorrow and get 3 more pounds. And maybe 3 more, Saturday too.
That's really cheap for any size headless shrimp.

You can always tell when they've been previously frozen and treated with sodium metabisulphite cause they dont peel worth a damn.

I enjoy a nice shrimp or prawn, There are a bit pricey in NZ, they tend to be imported, I find that most things treated with meta bi, tend to have a slightly sulfurous odour ,

I've eaten fresh and frozen shrimp and prawns from all over the world. But nothing compares to a Gulf of Mexico , fresh caught,  white shrimp. I like brown shrimp too, but they have a slight iodine taste some folks don't like.

I bought these fresh a while back . I think they were either  U8 or 8-12 ct/lb. Head on.
I think I could only eat 10 fried.

You are making me feel hungry, its 11:50 am here so lunch isn't far off,, My avocado and Vegemite on rye-bread toast is looking so appealing now

Those cost me $6.99/lb at the store , but you could have bought them fresh off the boat on the coast for $3.99 and that's $1/lb more than the fishermen can get at the market.

I fished crawfish commercially for a long time. Sometimes catching 2000-2400 pounds a day. But shrimp has always been my favorite seafood.