Recent content by insomniac

Wow it never crossed my mind that it may be roe. But wouldn't that be a bunch of little "eggs" like you see in caviar? This is just gooey-like texture. Although the roe idea does make sense.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions! My husband wanted to "just wash it" YUK! Although I hope to never see that again I'm sure I will, and I will continue throwing them out. I find it strange that I tried searching google as well as these message boards, and was not able to find anything...

Hi all! So there I was deveining a pound of shrimp for dinner, when I come across a nasty sight. His "sand vein", and really his whole back area it seemed, was full of icky orange gunk. I have actually run into this a couple of times and I just throw the whole shrimp out. Anybody have an idea...