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Today, Explained

America’s shellfish behavior

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Americans consume more shrimp than salmon and tuna combined. But where’s it all coming from? Listen to this episode of Gastropod before you throw another shrimp on the barbie this Memorial Day. Gastropod is a part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. This episode was produced by Cynthia Graber, and co-hosted by Nicola Twilley and Claudia Geib. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happy Memorial Day.

0:04.0

Maybe you're having a barbecue, and if you are, maybe you're going to throw some shrimp on the barbie?

0:09.0

Hi, Barbie.

0:10.0

Hi Barbie!

0:11.0

Hi, Barbie!

0:12.0

Bye Barbie! Fun fact Americans eat more shrimp than any other seafood. We eat on average about

0:20.6

six pounds of shrimp per person. We eat more shrimp than the next two most

0:25.2

popular seafoods combined. That's more shrimp than tuna and salmon together. That's

0:31.1

a lot of shrimp. Go get you some lobsters and shrimp.

0:37.0

But how did shrimp get so big?

0:39.0

And where's all that shrimp coming from?

0:41.0

And should you be eating so much of it. Those are not

0:44.8

today explained questions. Those are gastropod questions and while today

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