You, Shrimp!

To the urban world, as in ghetto, a shrimp could be something else.
A shrimp is a creature with a beautiful body. Forget about the head. Distress it!

A shrimp could also be a small person. Like Asians!
One time at a Scripps La Jolla potluck, Janice, a seasoned AARP employee wondered aloud why the shrimp in the recipe brought by a Filipino co-worker were not shelled and with head.

I told Janice about the shrimp recipe cooked with beer that our Filipino co-worker brought. The shrimp were shelled with head and tails intact for presentation.

"Nilasing na Hapon."

I encouraged Janice to say the name of the recipe aloud. She thought I was pulling her leg but attempted to repeat after me just the same.

I told her how we Filipinos like to eat our shrimp with its and  head and tails intact for presentation and call them drunken shrimp. I pointed out how Americans in contrast like to eat their shrimp shelled without head and tails and call them "cocktails".

Using lemon grass, onions, tomatoes and leafy greens freshly plucked from the backyard, the shrimp could be in a warm comforting mix of a tinowa.