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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 19:44:39 GMT
When I was little in Mississippi, jumbo prawns were sold as fish bait, because they were considered to be unworthy of eating by human beings. I caught hundreds of bluegills, pumpkinseeds, crokers, green trout and other local fish by putting blobs of jumbo prawns on my hook.
Naturally, now I see in all of the stores that the bigger the prawn, the higher the price. My Chinese supermarket has the prawns divided into 6 different sizes, with ascending prices for ascending sizes.
And yet I still don't know if bigger is better or if bigger is worse.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 6, 2009 6:32:21 GMT
We have extra large freshwater prawns here. Cheapest place to buy them is in Neak Luong on the Mekong (posted a pic of NL in my thread on going to Saigon) and even there they are a whopping 16USD/kg!!!
People even acknowledge the taste is not so good (I love 'em) but still you can get them at outrageous prices in the restaurants.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2009 15:52:32 GMT
What is the difference between prawns and shrimp?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 17:26:44 GMT
Take it to the language branch! (Two countries separated...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2009 18:22:13 GMT
And speaking of language ~~ we have boards here on this forum, not branches. Sheesh. Maybe we should call them docks, or maybe wharves? Seriously? They aren't two different things, the way lobsters and langostinos are? What about scampi -- what are they?
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Post by imec on Nov 6, 2009 18:55:10 GMT
There's a whole lot of controversy about this - I suspect there may be a correct answer, but in trying to find it you will encounter innumerable others.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 18:58:40 GMT
Prawns are what shrimp are called when they're more expensive.
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Post by imec on Nov 6, 2009 18:59:56 GMT
Or when they're British - the term is used rarely in NA.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 2:25:57 GMT
Native shrimp species in the Gulf of Mexico are being threatened by a non native species of giant tiger prawns. The tiger prawn is native to the western Pacific and is believed to have escaped from a facility in Bluffton,S.C. according to a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Post by imec on Nov 7, 2009 2:28:08 GMT
You sure they're not tiger shrimp? ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 2:49:08 GMT
;D the biological name for them is penaeus monodon.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 3:08:32 GMT
There's a whole lot of controversy about this - I suspect there may be a correct answer, but in trying to find it you will encounter innumerable others. kinda like the giant lobster tenderness theory? (ahem).
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Post by imec on Nov 7, 2009 3:57:06 GMT
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 7, 2009 4:18:56 GMT
And all this in the shellfish thread, err, branch, errr, wharf...
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 7, 2009 5:24:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 11:15:12 GMT
And all this in the shellfish thread, err, branch, errr, wharf... not just the shellfish thread hw.
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Post by rikita on Nov 7, 2009 14:36:00 GMT
there were some prawns/shrimp at the buffet at the party yesterday.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 7, 2009 16:44:06 GMT
Buffet? Party? Where?
Sure they weren't gambi? ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 18:21:14 GMT
Maybe the branches should be called reefs or shoals.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 7, 2009 23:41:20 GMT
Shoal 'nuff!
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Post by imec on Nov 7, 2009 23:48:30 GMT
We'll have to sea about this - I'm harboring doubts.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2009 2:12:14 GMT
I'm not shore either.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 10, 2009 6:36:49 GMT
Buffet? Party? Where? Sure they weren't gambi? ;D Or scampi?
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Post by existentialcrisis on Nov 10, 2009 9:12:57 GMT
Well apparently prawns and shrimp are different. At least, according to Wikipedia...
And scampi is used in North America to refer to a certain preparation of food - usually of shrimp or traditionally Norway lobster, whatever that is. And I guess "scampi" traditionally refers to this Norway lobster. Confusing.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 10, 2009 10:21:15 GMT
Scampi are actually just 'prawns' in Italian
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2009 14:59:30 GMT
"Norway lobster" is what we call langoustines here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 10, 2009 15:22:56 GMT
Well apparently prawns and shrimp are different. At least, according to Wikipedia... And scampi is used in North America to refer to a certain preparation of food ..... I haven't looked it up, but I am sure prawns & shrimp are two different, albeit similar, creatures. Yeah, you can see "shrimp scampi" on menus in the US, which sounds pretty silly, maybe somewhat like ordering "beef veal".
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 11, 2009 5:17:28 GMT
Ok, what would you call this?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2009 5:57:21 GMT
That is a langoustine.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 12, 2009 9:20:58 GMT
Yes. I'd agree. How about in English?
In German it's Kaisergranat or just Granat.
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