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for the info. I prefer shrimp to any shellfish, but the
langostinos are probably quite good.  I find lobster tasteless,
or almost.  The only way it is eaten here is with a ton of
butter, and that is what people taste.  They're quite good,
better than lobster, but it depends on what they were fed on. 
My friend's langostinos get leftover tilapia food, and fish poo,
and do quite well on it.  The flavor is shrimp-like, but
milder.  Sorta half-way between shrimp and lobster.  We have a
small lobster fishery here, mostly on the Caribbean side, but
they end up in restaurants, fed to rich tourists.  I've never
eaten one here.   Half way between shrimp and lobster, wouldn't
that be crayfish?  Mmmmmm, etouffee!!!  Favorite dish of mine,
too. In fact, I love almost anything creole or cajun.  Well,
they really are a tropical species of crayfish, but that's such
an undignified-sounding, downright proletarian name.  Only "mud
bugs" could be worse.  So we call t