From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!arens@UCBKIM Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: Re: Easy Shrimp Article-I.D.: ucbvax.831 Posted: Tue Feb 8 21:08:37 1983 Received: Fri Feb 11 06:41:25 1983 From: arens@UCBKIM (Yigal Arens) Received: from UCBKIM.BERKELEY.ARPA by UCBVAX.BERKELEY.ARPA (3.300 [1/17/83]) id AA07341; 8 Feb 83 21:08:24 PST (Tue) To: net-cooks@ucbvax Does anyone know what the black line down a shrimps edge is? Should it be eaten or cleaned out? (F. M. Carlson) Despite often being referred to as a "vein", that line is really the digestive tract of the shrimp. The substance in it is technically known as "shit". The rest is up to you. Yigal Arens UC Berkeley