They also tend to add a gritty, sand-in-your-mouth texture to your shrimp which is just... No fun at all.

True. While all of the other letters I can understand, anyone who sees the second character as an "a" is being deliberately obtuse, lol.

No harm, no foul. You can't be expected to know everything. Sounds like the team had a quick turn around on responding to the new information though, which is great!