# shrimp tails in food **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 10, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474 "2007-06-10T16:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/81 "2007-06-13T07:19:24Z")
Don’t get me started on the Kentucky Jelly. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/82 "2007-06-13T12:43:36Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] Don’t get me started on the Kentucky Jelly. [/QUOTE] Well, Wiki doesn’t know what that is, so enlighten me please. And here’s your chance to be published. Your professorship at Harvard is at stake. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/83 "2007-06-13T12:56:17Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Well, Wiki doesn’t know what that is, so enlighten me please. And here’s your chance to be published. Your professorship at Harvard is at stake. [/QUOTE] [http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/165/11/1516](http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/165/11/1516) 😃 KY /= Kentucky ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/84 "2007-06-13T14:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] [http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/165/11/1516](http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/165/11/1516) 😃 KY /= Kentucky [/QUOTE] Good one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/85 "2007-06-13T20:43:17Z")
In a only slightly related comment, do you all know that shrimp are related to centipedes? I’ve just discovered this and I’m totally grossed out. It truely is an ocean roach…:eek: _…aaaaaaaaaaah…runs away screaming…_ ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/86 "2007-06-13T21:05:43Z")
Well, in a sense, we’re _all_ related to centipedes, aren’t we? Just blew your mind, didn’t I? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/87 "2007-06-13T21:55:14Z")
Do ya feel the _love_ in here? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/88 "2007-06-13T22:35:43Z")
Shrimp are no more closely related to centipedes than they are to spiders, bees, grasshopers, or trilobites. > **[Arthropod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod)** > > Condylipoda Latreille, 1802 > Arthropods (/ˈɑːrθrəpɒd/, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (arthron) 'joint', and πούς (pous) 'foot' (gen. ποδός)) are invertebrate animals in the phylum Arthropoda. They possess an exoskeleton with a cuticle made of chitin, often mineralised with calcium carbonate, a metamerically segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. In order to keep growing, they must go through stages of moulting, a process by which they shed their exoskeleton to reveal a new one. They are... ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474/89 "2007-06-14T12:54:01Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray] Well, in a sense, we’re _all_ related to centipedes, aren’t we? [/QUOTE] So, you’ve met Aunt Edna? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimp-tails-in-food/407474.md?page=4)