# Shrimp dishes served with the tail still on, why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-dishes-served-with-the-tail-still-on-why/652515>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 10, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-dishes-served-with-the-tail-still-on-why/652515 "2013-03-10T01:19:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-dishes-served-with-the-tail-still-on-why/652515/21 "2013-03-10T19:28:10Z")

</div>

I never knew shrimp had heads until I moved to Mexico. They use every part here. Make an excellent shrimp head soup. Delicious! You suck out the eyes and brains. They put all the shells in a blender and liquify then and make another soup. Lots of flavor and you would never know that you are eating shells.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-dishes-served-with-the-tail-still-on-why/652515.md?page=1)