What's the difference between a prawn and a shrimp?
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In British usage, prawn is the more general term for small crustaceans and shrimps are very small ones with flattish bodies. In American usage shrimp is the general term. Places where English is not the mother tongue use either term at random, e.g. frozen king prawns from Thailand are often laballed as shrimps.
Pepe, from the muppets is a King Prawn. Never call him a shrimp.
Prawns are usually larger, but generally they are the same thing
No difference mate, i'm a dog, same as a great dane.
Big and small, Great Dane and Chihuahua
Well except they're are two different species
The difference is size. Prawns are bigger than shrimp. On that fact everyone agrees. It the matter of how much bigger where the agruments start.
mark karr would know!
A Prawn Is Cultured (Farm Raised ) A Shrimp Is Wild
they are very similar, they are actually related.
shrimp are the smaller of the two (but americans call what the english kown as prawns shrimp, so a british prawn and an american shrimp are the same whereas shrimp and prawns in england are actually considered different!)
confusing hey
a prawn is a shrimp and a shrimp is a prawn
prawn begins with p.. shrimp begins with s quite simple really
They're spelt differently!
Sorry, just had to make that remark, but it's not entirely flippant: prawn and shrimp are two names for the same thing, one's mainly British the other mainly American.
Believe me, Gary A., prawns get pretty wild once they're caught.
Shrimps are smaller. How come no one mentioned scampi?
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