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?

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