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)
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	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