I'm making shrimp scampi tonight. I have a pound of frozen shelled and devained shrimp. They have the tails on. I just looked at a couple of recipes. They all call for parsley. I promise you that cilantro is better. They all show serving the dish with the tails on. I've taken them off in the past. What do you do when serving any shrimp dish?

Cooking some shrimp for supper here too. I almost always remove the tails. Only a few dishes I leave them on for. They're just for looks.

I will eat them either way.....

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The tails and the shells have flavor that will cook into the dish. I like it with the tails, and shells too. Not everyone likes more shrimp flavor though. So I guess my answer would be, it depends.

Yep. It is shrimp. Eat it and be happy.

I only leave the tails on for fried or boiled. Everything else, especially in a dish like scampi, tails off.

I will never take the tails off unless it's going in a gumbo.

Sometimes I'll throw em on the grill with the shells on (always with the tails on) if I don't feel like cleaning em all.

Only downside is the vein/intestines are still in em then.

save the tails and make shrimp stock

Most are ezy peel nowadays.

Yep. I save the heads and shells for shrimp stock. Makes a hell of a gumbo.

Same here

Ya know that's fo sure.

Leave them on for fried shrimp and that's it.
I'll eat some fried tail.

no tails and DAM sure no Cilantro, will over power the shrimp flavor

Scampi is garlic and butter not cilantro

BUT


if that's what floats your shrimp, u gotta eatum

if you aren't using Gulf brown shrimp , there will be no taste anyway....

This was my last batch.

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I dislike it when the tails aren't taken off, I don't understand it, you worked to get everything else off of them. Plus then if they are rolling in a nice sauce the tails take away some of that sauce, it's not like you can suck the tails to get the sauce off...unless I am missing something here.

Gulf Brown's and Gulf Whites taste about the same to me. I buy Gulf Whites by the sack off the boats and I think they actually have more shrimp flavor than the brown's. JMO. I boiled some brown's last night and they were mighty fine though. Bay shrimp (brown's & white's) are dang good too. IMO all wild caught shrimp are good. Farm raised and imported shrimp are garbage.

I'm so jealous skinnerback, I love the saltwater and the Texas Coast. Spent a bunch of summers in Fulton as a kid. Remember eating stuffed flounder at an old beat-up place called Yacht Haven. probably in the 60's

I bet those shrimps were GREAT !!!!!

looks pretty dang good Bill, don't tell me...you had leftovers tonight.

i'm a professional shrimp eater so it doesnt matter to me either way...kinda reminds me of people who dont know how to eat fish unless its been filleted

that's why I love broiled flounder, real, fresh , gulf flounder, fork the meat off both sides and use the rest as a hair comb

Now yer talking. fried whole, or stuffed with shrimp & crab and broiled or baked. Also love pecan crusted flounder. Need to go catch some more...

Pecan crusted is the bomb!

Stuffed flounder is outstanding