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Admiral Snaccbar @Chris Mench Serving shrimp with the tail still on when it’s already mixed into something (pasta, rice, etc) is insane.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    301·
    2 months ago

    This is Korea. For whatever reason every single animal they consume that has unpleasant bits inside, they leave em in. Bony fish, bony chicken, grisly pork, soup full of shelled shellfish, and shrimp with tails. Hell, frequently entire shrimp head and all. Also locally where I live they have these different shrimp that have I dunno extra tough and sharp carapace. They don’t even try to shuck those things.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 months ago

      I’ve had similar experiences with SE Asian cuisine. They just don’t seem to have the same standards for butchering and meat preparation that we do in the West. Hell, I know of one SE Asian culture that doesn’t even have any sort of defined meat cuts. They just chop it all up into big chunks. Doesn’t matter what part of the animal it is, it’s getting chopped up into big bits.

      • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        Oh definitely. It wasn’t that long ago there were some pretty hard times here. The older generation remembers.

          • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            My mom was born during the Great Depression and re-uses ziplock bags. On the other hand, she insists on brand-name everything instead of generics or store brands, so it’s not purely about frugality.

            • KrauerkingEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              Yeah but name brands mean you buy it once and it doesn’t fail as often, is the argument for that I get from those of that generation.

              And I mean I get it. Buy a cheap pair of shoes or a good pair and you will realize you will go through 3 of the cheap pairs at half price compared to buying 1 good pair.

              Though less so with each passing year since name brands are designed to fail now too.

              • ChexMax@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                2 months ago

                Yeah, I’m 30 and I feel like I’ve never had the experience of being able to rely on a name brand consistently. Everything seems to fall apart. Sometimes you get something great, but when it comes time to replace it and you buy the exact same thing from the exact same company it comes at a much lower quality

                • KrauerkingEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Its so fricking hard to find the trustworthy brands.

                  I’m honestly just so willing to not have any brand loyalty and to suffer with making a bad pick that I have to return or fix myself, I constantly having to re-find what is considered actually good quality.

                  The answer is a lot of name brand in the higher price range but not so high that it’s just for padding a contractor’s quote and percent take home is still good quality. And you can never go for the same model twice if the company is doing constant refreshes cause those are with cheaper components every time. (Allowance for first refresh fixing a flaw)

                • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Ironically, it was about 30 years ago that brand names started really leaning into shrinkflation, and enshitification, riding off the merits of their previously good name.

          • Brosplosion@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            My grandma is over 100 and still licks the plate clean after eating. Things like that get ingrained with you