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The origins of the prawn/shrimp cocktail
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Lazarus Cooke
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In article .com>,
seres > wrote:
> Dr
wrote:
> > The thing about Shrimp and Lobster, is, that I always wonder who the
> > first guy was that picked up a dead lobster on the beach and thought
> > "hmmm I wonder what THIS tastes like?" Can you even imaging eating a
> > large dead bug? Some one must have been very hungry.
> >
> > From what I have heard and read, the lobster was eaten by the indians
> > before the arrival of the Europeans in the 1600's. I imagine that the
> > shrimp was the same story.
> Of course! the same you can say about eating crabs! and shells!
>
It was also eaten by the Europeans before a few of them went wandering
off.
People have been eating shellfish for a very, very long time. As long
as there have been humans at all. Probably longer.
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