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From: Tahitian pearl <j63480576@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: SOS (WAS: Re: Product Recall: for any of you in the US who eat
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:53:23 -0600
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Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2025-02-20, Hank Rogers <hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On 2025-02-19, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:
>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-02-15 3:50 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/15/2025 11:03 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I live in a landlocked area and I haven't had canned shrimp in
>>>>>>> 50 years.  Frozen shrimp are readily available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You don't know what Leo *grew up* having available; he lives in
>>>>>> Nevada.  Perhaps canned shrimp was all his mother could find.
>>>>>
>>>>> I grew up in a small town near Toronto in the 50s. The only shrimp we
>>>>> ever knew back then were those tiny things that came in cans.  Into
>>>>> the 60s we could get frozen battered shrimp. In the 70s we could get
>>>>> frozen shrimp in bags but they were ungodly expensive.
>>>>
>>>> Grin, the classic shrimp-n-grits wasn't on the menu then I take it.
>>>
>>> Shrimp and grits is not a classic in the north.  Until recently,
>>> the only place I ever saw grits (besides the Quaker instant grits
>>> on the grocery store shelf) was a hillbilly diner.
>>>
>>
>> I thought the shrimp and grits stuff was mostly from new orleans, maybe
>> other gulf coast places. But maybe I'm wrong.
> 
> Credit the Food Network.  People started seeing shrimp and grits
> on tv shows and restaurants started serving it.  We've got a few
> places up here that serve it.  They're all relatively pricy
> places.  Prices range $20, $22, $28.65.
> 
> I see one place has grits with a bunch of vegetables and cheese
> on top for $26.  A little something for the vegetarians.
> 

Is this so different from the shrimp lo mein I can get for $8?  Never 
really caught on to grits even though my grandmother tried to get me to 
like them.  Oatmeal & malt o meal are pretty good...

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