Re: SOS (WAS: Re: Product Recall: for any of you in the US who eat canned tuna)

On 2/17/2025 6:21 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-02-15, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
 

You don't know what Leo *grew up* having available; he lives in Nevada.
Perhaps canned shrimp was all his mother could find.

  At the time, it was. Nowadays, I'm sure that the substitution of fresh
salad shrimp would be better. We even have them here. That's progress!
I suspect that our "fresh" salad shrimp is from frozen. I can't imagine
peeling those little buggers by hand. There must be a process?
 leo

I'm not a big enough fan of shrimp to buy them fresh with the shells on and bother to peel them.  I remember when I was a teenager living in TN my mother bought frozen shrimp to serve shrimp cocktail at holiday dinners and they been shelled.
Gary used to give me a hard time, asking why didn't I just go to the docks to buy fresh shrimp.  Um.  That's not the way it works.  You can't just walk onto a commercial fishing dock and buy freshly caught seafood.   Those people aren't looking to sell 1/2 a pound of shrimp or whatever to individuals.  They are commercial shrimpers and fishermen who do this for a living.  They sell their catch to local shops and restaurants. You can go into local shops to buy fresh but you cannot walk out onto commercial fishing docks and buy anything.  Maybe it's different in Virginia or other places.
Jill