[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 93, Issue 22 -- The Lobster Thread
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Thu Jan 16 15:21:19 PST 2014
> Re prawns, actual prawns, such as the Dublin Bay prawn, are in fact quite
> a lot like small lobsters; it is a marketing convention and
> restauranteur's tradition to refer to large shrimp by that name (for
> example, the scampi referred to in the name "shrimp scampi" are
> lobster-like prawns; in this case prepared in a manner that had previous
> been traditional for actual scampi).
>
> Adamantius, hitting the books again
Dublin Bay prawn and scampi are historically Nephrops norvegicus, a fairly
common European spiny lobster.
Prawn is a common name with no fixed taxonomic relations and is used to
refer to almost any of the large swimming crustaceans. And just to confuse
things, regional usage determines what is a prawn and what is a shrimp.
Bear
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