potted shrimps

[captainbovine]

Just watching countryfile coming from Southport (where we used to live) and they were shrimping.

Anyone else besides me like potted shrimps? ooooh I just love them but you rarely see them now...

[stan3502]

Love em CB ......................slice of nice bread and buttter to go with em and I'm straight back to my childhood and days at the seaside with my Dad

[ed_blackadder_1]

I like them too, big thick slice of real bread and real butter,  don't see them around here very often, mainly cockles and mussells yuk.

[stan3502]

Oh no Ed ............................I just love all shell fish ..

Yummmmm fresh cockles with a dash of vinegar and some pepper or mussels cooked in white wine onion and garlic with baguette

So many memories of days out and holidays with my Dad now flooding back ..................all putting a smile on my face

[mustavaquid]

I saw that, I love them too. I had some a few weeks ago, got from my 'cheap shop' ( company shop ), about 50p. for a 150g tub which is really cheap. Not one of the usual brands but a small family firm somewhere, can't remember the name. Really good, I had them on toast as the butter was a bit hard so it softened with the heat. Ask your local fishmonger or mobile fish sales man.

[captainbovine]

when I was a child, I lived 12 miles from Southport so we went a lot. We used to get potted shrimps and bring them home for tea with bread and real butter too.

Once here in N Wales, we had a load of them in work and no one wanted them. I made myself stop after two pots...didn't want to look greedy but I could have eaten them all, the only time something free in the canteen was worth having!

[stan3502]

Our local fishmonger has them but just can' justify the price of them ...........even as a treat

[ed_blackadder_1]

I love all shelfish, except cockles and mussells,  made myself very very very poorly when I was young,  went for a day out to Budeigh Salterton, had pot of cockles, pot of winkles and then an hour later had a devon cream tea, then drove back home forty miles, stopping every couple of miles, took us hours to get home, my friend and I were about 18 at the time, and we went to the Donkey sanctuary,

to this day I have not eaten cockles, mussells or winkles.

Maybe I should try them agaain.

[captainbovine]

oh you shouldn't laugh should you.....

Stan....how much do they charge?

[alisonsvintagechicboutique]

Shrimps are divine!!  I think they are expensive as they have to be hand peeled lol!!  They are a zillion times tastier than prawns.  

I was going shrimping with my Grandad off Herne Bay when I was about 5.  My Mum still has the net in her garage.  I think maybe I should go again now I am 43.  

The seas around UK are teamng with shrimps but around 90%+ get sent abroad!  

Waitrose now stock little packs of peeled shrimps for £3.99 and potted shrimps, I buy them when I am feeling flush!! 

[ilove2patch]

We get the little dark ones here in season. They call them Breakwater Prawns locally as they come from off the Portland Harbour wall area but they are tiny shrimps really & so tasty! A devil to peel but so worth it.

[leoleoleo123]

Boh! I cannot bear the sight of it all, never mind the taste! lol

[1311rose]

Love them.

Our local S'bys sells packs of brown shrimps so I guess I'll just have to make my own!

[captainbovine]

I notice we've got some new lines in the store and brown shrimps is one of them, aye caramba!!!! £4 for 90gms

[mustavaquid]

" £4 for 90gms "  Cripes, our local fishmongers market stall have them loose @ 70p. for 100g, whole, freshly cooked. Last week they had some peeled shrimps @ 60p. for 100g  , a special offer I think. I got the last £1 worth they had and thoroughly enjoyed them.

[alisonsvintagechicboutique]

60p for 100g!!!!!!!

Where do you live I'm getting me coat......

[captainbovine]

just my luck that....you can't get anything here, it's like being on another planet, there's lots of lamb though,

[mustavaquid]

I'm in Grimsby. Around here in the Humber area, there are both brown and pink shrimps. That fishmonger also has loose fresh Atlantic peeled prawns @ £1-70 for 100g. which I don't bother with as in 'that shop' they sometimes have M&S / Waitrose /  Asda chilled ones @ £2-00 for 200g.. They are packed here by Young's and other processors. I got some Morrison's chilled raw peeled king prawns, product of Thailand, a few weeks ago, priced @ £2-99 per 145g. pack, I paid 59p. each for two packs and have frozen them for bait for when I next go fishing with my mate on his boat.

Lamb? I love it. It is expensive but it's sometimes in the shop, normally half marked price, even cheaper on the 'use by' day.

[lhasa.two]

You are lucky to be in a "catchment" area for those shrimps. I'm a bit land locked although not too far from a coast but  don't see shrimps that often.

I love mussels but lament they are so small these days, not left in the sea long enough to develop any kind of taste.

[wizilizi]

Had potted shrimps as one of the starters at a wedding dinner

Talk about a mixed reception!!!!!!!

To me, they were yummmmmy - hadn't seen or eaten them for years; apparently they are now 'fashionable food'