Ina Garten

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

American Author

Gina Neely

All Southern cooks have tried their hands at shrimp and grits, and each one has his or her own version of the dish. My mom used to season her shrimp with garlic and onion and just prepare the grits with a little salt and pepper.

American Actor

Willie Geist

I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?

American Journalist

Mads Mikkelsen

I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.

Danish Actor

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

American Musician

Jonathan Cheban

Anyone I go to Nobu with who gets rock shrimp, I freak out on them.

Da Brat

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

American Rapper

Barry Lam

Taiwanese Businessman

Thomas Gray

English Poet

Lennon Parham

American Actress

Shrimp relates to food and is common in recipes, menus, and when describing dishes.

Culinary Context

When used for sea creatures, 'shrimp' suggests they are small.

Size Implication

Usage can depend on the dish's origin, like 'shrimp' in American English or 'prawn' in British English.

Cuisine Specific

Used informally, 'shrimp' can be a playful or insulting way to refer to someone's small stature.

Colloquial Insult

This meaning of 'shrimp' is informal and best used among friends or in casual settings.

Casual Use

'Shrimp' can be offensive when referring to a person; it's important to be mindful.

Sensitive Term

 I need help with this one. Step over this way for me. Don't run away. You had something down by your pants pocket. I was checking mine. I couldn't find everything, but I noticed you had something here. Can I feel the outside for a moment? Down here I noticed this. Is this something of yours, sir? I have no idea. That's a shrimp. Yeah. I'm saving it for later.

The art of misdirection...

 The rest is by-catch, unwanted animals that are thrown back dead. And coastal shrimp farming isn't much better. Mangroves are bulldozed to make room for shrimp farms, robbing coastal communities of storm protection and natural water filtration and depriving fish of key nursery habitats. So what does it look like to give fish a break and let them recover?

Will the ocean ever run...

 it's often obvious when they're hurting. But there's a lot that isn't obvious, like whether pain relievers that work on us also help them. And the more different an animal is from us, the harder it is to understand their experience. How do you tell whether a shrimp is in pain?

How do animals...

 that looks like an airport runway? Neither would any sensible predator. The flashing lights keep the worm safe. Then there's the deep sea shrimp, Acantherphyra purpurea. When it feels threatened, it spews a cloud of glowing goo from its mouth. Who doesn't run the other way

The brilliance of...

 photoreceptors - our three and what that means for this shrimp is that he pulls in a lot more detail from the electromagnetic spectrum all the way from the deep red into the ultraviolet meaning that the shrimp's rainbow is much wider than the human being's

Asking where consciousnes...

 And talking about babies, when you were starting to develop in your mother's womb, the first sensation that you had coming from the outside world, at only three weeks old, when you were about the size of a shrimp, were through the tactile sensation

Why you don’t like the...

 bodies and that the shrimp are able to use a lot of things that would otherwise pile up and be kind of slimy and not very attractive to swimmers and so all that sweeping and all that movement that they do is really keeping things great for

Thanks to Shrimp, These...

 fish lay eggs amidst their sprawling, complex root systems. Symbiotic sponges and sea squirts protect their host trees from hungry woodboring crustaceans. Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles,

The sharks that hunt in...

 and I said if you got any old salmon or hang on the bottom of it I would sure appreciate it yeah that's exactly what I was hoping for good stinky bit attracted to the bay shrimp swim into the pots narrowing

Packing the Shrimp Pots...

 is a busy living world shrimp like krill a staple food in the antarctic come here for their winter growth