What is with the food shrimp? Expensive and they dont give you much?!
Answers: i order shrimp scampi, they give me a big plate of noodles and 4 medium shrimp on top. Wherever you go they hardly give you any shrimp with the meal. And then you see cocktail shrimps are outrageously expensive. Why do they hardly give people any shrimp and charge a lot?
Shrimp is not expensive. if you travel to south easter louisianna you can buy shrimp very cheap in resturants and at shrimp sheds (raw uncooked) that is where they are processed. it is shipping shrimp that is what makes them very expensive. they have to be frozen or on ice.
you can buy a pound of shrimp off a boat for about $1.50-$2.50 a pound according to size larger ones cost more.
once unloaded from the boat to the shrimp shed and packaged for shipping you can add about 2-3 dollars to every pound. then to ship shrimp depends on how far they have to go anywhere they can be delivered in a day by a truck costs about 1 dollar more witch brings the total to about 6 dollars a pound and farther away to about 8 to 9 dollars a pound. Then for the resturant to cook and prepair it they add about 3-5 dollars to it and that is the whole process to how you pay so much for a few shrimp. If you are a shrimp love come on down to new orleans during the shrimp season May to mid july and mid august to mid october and come eat some freash shrimp cooked by some of our great cerole cook. and i promise you you plate will over flow with good fresh shrimp
Generally a shrimp cocktail is appetizer 5 - 6 medium or large shrimp. A meal the general rule is 8 unless it is early bird. That is how portion size is .....
That's just the way it is. Shrimp is always expensive. I buy it fresh. I purchased 12 colossal shrimp to make baked, stuffed shrimp for Christmas dinner, and it was around $18-$19 a pound.
I mainly depends on where you live.
The further inland you are, the more expensive seafood becomes.
There are other factors in pricing such as seasonal availability. It is expensive to get a product like shrimp to your plate as most seafood spoils very quickly so refridgeration and / or quick freezing is involved.
Lastly, demand. Simply put a heck of alot of people like shrimp and the larger ones which are more desireable for some reason are in greater demand but the supply is limited which equals more money that people like you and me are willing to pay.
Shrimps are very difficult to catch in the ocean. Restaurants thusly pay more for obtaining shrimps and later the customer has to pay these prices.
shrimp prices have been increasing due to fuel prices going up
less and less shrimp boats go out anymore decreasing the supply