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Shrimp

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I like shrimp at holidays — to me they almost epitomize holidays. I’m planning to have some for New Year’s. So here are shrimp, rated worst to best:

  1. Shrimp …. raw. Uncooked.
  2. Cooked shrimp found on sidewalk.
  3. Shrimp … if you are allergic to seafood.
  4. Shrimp with both complete shell and legs attached. Peel and work for your morsel, slave!
  5. Shrimp with legs attached. (Tied: shrimp that the government funds to put on treadmills to see how fast they run.)
  6. Shrimp with either shell and/or legs, and no receptacle provided for their disposal. In your pants pocket is nasty.
  7. Shrimp scampi is nice, but you end up with a surplus of scampi — and again, scampi in your pants is nasty.
  8. They try to hide a morsel of shrimp in too much baked batter. Don’t order the fried shrimp. Or CornPop shrimp. That’s bad, dudes.
  9. Stuffed shrimp is very good, since they usually get the ratios right, and they use those Fred Flintstone–size shrimp.
  10. Shrimp cocktail. The very best. James Bond–level shrimp.

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Honorable(?) Mention:

Kamala Harris yells out ‘shrimp and grits’ as reporter shouts out question about Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza as she exits Detroit restaurant
Daily Mail | 5/06/24 | Charlie Spiering

Dishonorable Mention:

Endless Shrimp Is Financially Ruining Red Lobster
Food and Wine | Stacey Leasca | 12/6/23

Not every deal is a good deal.

Yes, you can, in fact, have too much of a good thing. And it appears Red Lobster is learning that the hard way.

In an earnings report call in early November, Ludovic Regis Henri Garnier, the CFO of Thai Union Group, which owns Red Lobster, announced that its Ultimate Endless Shrimp deal, which is normally a limited-time offer but was added to the daily menu in June, was exceedingly popular — so popular that it caused the restaurant chain to post an operating loss of more than $11 million in the third quarter of 2023.

“We knew the price was cheap, but the idea was to bring more traffic in the restaurants,” Garnier told investors, according to Restaurant Business. “So we wanted to boost our traffic, and it didn’t work.”

For you Hunter gatherers:

Prawn to be wild: cocaine found in all shrimp tested in rural UK county
The Guardian | 1 May 2019

It’s All Very Confusing

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What program should IMAO use to hire interns from abroad?

“Hmmm… A broad, you say?”

  • Immigrant Investor visa [EB5].
  • Visa Investor Program [EB2].
  • Alien of Extraordinary Ability [EB1A].
  • Sponsored Worker [EB3].
  • Student visas [F1 and F2].
  • Work visas [H1B].
  • Diversity Visa Lottery [DV].

Straight Line of the Day: It’s Necessary the U.S. Own Greenland, Because…

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Donald says it is an “absolute necessity” the US purchases Greenland
X | Dec 22, 2024 | The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

BREAKING: Trump says that the US feels ‘that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity’

Trump:

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

Friday Night Open Thread: I Have No Black Friends

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I just don’t happen to know anyone very cool who is black who I’d hang out with. Most blacks seem to have a different idea of cool than I do . . . although you wouldn’t know it from TV commercials. Thomas Sowell doesn’t seem to differ from me in culture; but he’s not my friend because he wouldn’t know me from Adam.

It’s like a 3-D Venn diagram, like that chessboard in Star Trek. Very few points of intersection.

Of course, a corollary of this is that I have very few friends of any description I’d hang out with, because hanging out sounds expensive, and I’m cheap. We could keep in touch by phone, even if they were black and I wouldn’t know it; but I’m lazy as well.

This puts me at a disadvantage. Unlike Donald Trump, I can’t produce limitless photos of me with my arms around people of all races, smiling.

And I don’t use a capital letter for “black,” because color is not in the same category as a proper name. Race might be — I’m thinking of Asian, Caucasian, and so on — but not color. This might tick some off.

In other news, I don’t have any transsexual vegan mountain-climbing Trekkie friends, either. I assume they have their own. Why ruin their good time?

Oh, and speaking of Star Trek:

PSA: Evaluate the Person You’re Tipping

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Pizza delivery woman didn’t like her tip — so she tried to kill the customer: cops
The New York Post | 12/26/2024 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

A Florida pizza delivery worker was so angry over a tip she got from a customer that she stabbed the woman multiple times, according to police.

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The accused stabber was charged with attempted murder, home invasion with a firearm, assault and kidnapping, according to sheriff’s department records.