CraigC
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Does it matter to you whether you purchase wild caught or farm raised? IMO, farm raised doesn't have a lot of flavor.
Does it matter to you whether you purchase wild caught or farm raised? IMO, farm raised doesn't have a lot of flavor.
You should be able to get Matane shrimp s/place in Montreal--they are the tiny kind and very good.The best shrimp I ever had were wild caught Danish shrimp. They were a special tiny kind, less than an inch in diameter.
My dad used to have to go to New Orleans every now and again...he'd bring back 20 lb of fresh shrimp. I think it was "wild caught." It was soooooooo good. We'd steam it and eat it cold....best shrimp I've ever had. Or maybe that is like remembering things that were SOOOOO BIG when one was a child. He'd also fly back from Boston with live lobster...probably can't do that anymore...I used to bring live lobster home on the plane from Boston or Maine as well back in the days that I traveled there for work.
I never bought them at the airport--I used to stop at a fishmonger place on my way to the airport...you have no idea how tempting it is to make a road trip to Boston!Yeah, you can still fly with live lobsters. In fact at Logan Airport, there is a place that sells and packs them for you to take on the plane with you. They have a tank full of live ones. If I were buying any to take with me, I would never buy tham at the airport. Way too expensive. You will be paying $5.99-$6.99 a pound or up. The tourists don't know any better.
Right now there is such a glut of them on the market. They are only $3.99 a pound for 1-1.5# chickens. That is the supermarket price. The lobstermen are cutting out the middle man and selling them directly from their boats. Be at the dock when the boats come in, and they are almost giving them away. But I would rather pay the supermarket price to them. They are having a really rough year. Some lobstermen have stopped going out in the morning to set their traps.
I never bought them at the airport--I used to stop at a fishmonger place on my way to the airport...you have no idea how tempting it is to make a road trip to Boston!
I have tasted the shrimp in this type of package several times at a relative's home and they are consistently tasteless and waterlogged.
I hadn't noticed that the picture was of a vacuum pack. I have had the tasteless, waterlogged shrimp from platters with a clear, rigid lid.The vacuum packing causes that waterlogged ick. I get my platter at Costco and don't have that problem.