Eucalyptus corridor. Several times while driving along the highway here I would suddenly smell Eucalyptus and realize these trees were lining the road.
Had dinner with my friends in the Monterey Bay area. We had delicious oysters and fried prawns at a place called A.W. Shucks.
In addition to discussing hockey teams, we asked the chef at A.W. Shucks if there is a difference between shrimp and prawns. He said he didn't know. I copied and pasted this scientific sounding explanation from someone's blog:
Arthropods can be subdivided into several classes, one of which is the Malacostraca.
This class contains about half of the crustaceans. The members of this class have a primitive body plan that can be described as shrimp-like, consisting of of a 5-8-7 body plan. They have a small carapace that encloses the head and the thorax, and have a muscular abdomen for swimming. They also have a thin exoskeleton to maintain a light weight. These general characters are common in all members of the class.
The class can be further divided into the Decapods, which are even still divided into the Duedrobanchates (prawns) and the Carideans (shrimp and snapping shrimp).
The prawns have sequentially overlapping body segments (segment one covers the segment two, segment two covers segment three, etc), chlelate (claw like) first three legs, and have a very basic larval body type.
The shrimps also have overlapping segments, however, in a different pattern ( segment two overlaps segments one and three ), only the first two legs are chelate, and they have a more complex larval form.
Boom. There you have it folks. There is a difference and you must take a side.
Just kidding, you can like shrimp and prawns. :-)
I always just though prawns were large shrimp. I am so much smarter now, thanks to you, Lewis!!
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