https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/My-shrimp-canton-nightmare/m-p/173405#M5256 <P>I wanted to make shrimp canton for last night's dinner. I needed a recipe. I don't know where my mind was and I googled shrimp tampon. Trust me. There are no recipes. After a few minutes, the correct name came to me. Google must have thought I was looking for mini tampons.</P> <P>Let me say I have never cleaned shrimp before. So I start by taking off the shells. After I did a few, I noticed a dark stringy thing coming out of the shrimp. I pull it out. After a while it occurs to me this might be their waste material. So I have go back and remove it from the ones I already did. A lot of us would lose bowel control when faced with certain death. Why did this not happen to the shrimp when they were caught in a net? Anyway, it took me over an hour to clean 2.1 pounds of 41/50 shrimp. This is now my least favorite cooking chore.</P> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:32:33 GMT brewhaha 2012-03-16T19:32:33Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/My-shrimp-canton-nightmare/m-p/173405#M5256 <P>I wanted to make shrimp canton for last night's dinner. I needed a recipe. I don't know where my mind was and I googled shrimp tampon. Trust me. There are no recipes. After a few minutes, the correct name came to me. Google must have thought I was looking for mini tampons.</P> <P>Let me say I have never cleaned shrimp before. So I start by taking off the shells. After I did a few, I noticed a dark stringy thing coming out of the shrimp. I pull it out. After a while it occurs to me this might be their waste material. So I have go back and remove it from the ones I already did. A lot of us would lose bowel control when faced with certain death. Why did this not happen to the shrimp when they were caught in a net? Anyway, it took me over an hour to clean 2.1 pounds of 41/50 shrimp. This is now my least favorite cooking chore.</P> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:32:33 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/My-shrimp-canton-nightmare/m-p/173405#M5256 brewhaha 2012-03-16T19:32:33Z