At 08:40 AM 11/21/02 +1100, you wrote:
>Viv wrote: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:32 PM
>> Prawn = shrimp
>>
>> Lobster = crayfish
>>
>> Viv
>
>Keeping this on the scuba front......
>
>I don't think these are interchangeable are they, cos.....:
>
>We don't get Lobsters in this part of the world, but we do get some kind of
>salt water Crayfish (a different creature - it doesn't have the big claw)
>and just call it a Lobster due to our ignorance and jealousy.
>
>Again, shrimp and Prawn are two different creatures are they not - its just
>that people don't know how to tell the difference and think it is all down
>to size (and we know that size isn't everything!).
>
>Julian


We have shrimp and prawns here in B.C., prawns being much larger than
shrimp.  Also, in Canada a shrimp is a little person.

Wayne McKenzie
Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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