the nut job is not.

A prawn is what you eat.

Prawns are not shrimp...they're two different animals. I don't care where you're from or what you call them...this isn't "nappies" and "diapers". Prawns are bigger. Shrimp > prawns, at least to my tastes.

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not exactly

According to the crustacean taxonomist Tin-Yam Chan, "The terms shrimp and prawn have no definite reference to any known taxonomic groups. Although the term shrimp is sometimes applied to smaller species, while prawn is more often used for larger forms, there is no clear distinction between both terms and their usage is often confused or even reverse in different countries or regions."

idk about the rest of us...but i'm willing to take the word of tin-yan chan. as an expert crustacean taxonomist...his word is basically The Law when it comes to sea bugs.

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penaeus monodon

lol penaeus

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According to the crustacean taxonomist Tin-Yam Chan, "The terms shrimp and prawn have no definite reference to any known taxonomic groups. Although the term shrimp is sometimes applied to smaller species, while prawn is more often used for larger forms, there is no clear distinction between both terms and their usage is often confused or even reverse in different countries or regions."

idk about the rest of us...but i'm willing to take the word of tin-yan chan. as an expert crustacean taxonomist...his word is basically The Law when it comes to sea bugs.

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penaeus monodon

lol penaeus

Scenario: New England 2009

A man bursts into a woman's house, points a gun at her head and shouts:
"PRAWNS OR SHRIMP?!?!"

She panics... but manages to answer...

Satsified the man leaves without incident...

what would your answer be?

Or perhaps the rest of the world is right which is why its in common usage!

Also, when I see pepper I think of spices, not pork, which would make sense when talking about a spicy meat.

what would your answer be?

Dude, what?

Pizza is an Italian dish.

A bell pepper is still a pepper, even if it's not spicy...this isn't rocket science. I don't give a sh*t whether or not you consider it a pepper, IT'S A PEPPER REGARDLESS. Are you gonna start calling pork beef while you're at it? Why don't you just change the name hamburger to celery?

If "pepperoni" is an Italian meat, which it is, then it's not called "pepperoni"...it's called salamino. If you want to name it something that's not an Italian word...

"spicy red pork tube"

i guess the moral of all this is "when in rome..."

That sounds too complicated. I like Pepperoni more.

Ragout = stew (any)
Ragu = meaty sauce named after French ragouts Italians encountered during the Napoleonic era (generally put on pasta)

Just because pizza originates from Italy doesn't make it exclusively an Italian food, and pizzas made outside Italy aren't inauthentic. That boat sailed a long time ago. They're just foods that share a common origin, the paths of which have diverged and have different styles, ingredients, and preparation methods in different places.

Pizza pre-dates European consumption of the tomato (which came from S. America), and the "original" pizzas of Naples didn't even include mozzarella, so who the hell it to say what's "real" or "authentic" anyways?

Feel free to post another wall of text though.

You know its funny now that I think about it, but I've never have actually eaten crawdad. I catch them all the time but usually just a couple to throw in the horse trough.

look. all i want to know....is if prawns and shrimp are the same species. if tin-yam chan didn't settle the dispute earlier perhaps some other crustacean expert will step forward.

Think of it like this: Labrador Retrievers and German Shepherds are both dogs, but they're not the same type of dog. They're different "races". Same with prawns and shrimp. Prawns are a little bigger than shrimp, their physical attributes are different, but they're still very similar. That said, they're not the same animal. A prawn is not a shrimp no more than a Lab is a German Shepherd and a tiger is a lion.

Yet they are all delicious when consumed from the barbecue.

Balderdash. Pizza isn't an Italian food? Are you serious? When food originates from a place, it does become that place's food. I don't care how popular it is elsewhere, it's still the original country's food. Maybe that offends your sensibilities and crushes your opinion of yourself, but that doesn't change the fact that it's true. I guess sushi isn't Japanese, then, since tons of Americans eat it?

It doesn't mean it's inauthentic if it's made anywhere else, as I've already said numerous times. In fact, one year the Japanese won the international pizza competition with the best pizza in the world. The Turks were the first to cook flat bread on a rock and put food on it, which the Italians took and made pizza out of. I'm not discussing the anthropology of pizza, but pizza as it is today is an Italian dish. The only exception is if we're talking about utter garbage pizza like Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, Little Caeser's, etc. That's sh*t, not pizza...utter sh*t.

Go ahead and call your average American-made ham San Daniele or Parma prosciutto and see what happens. Lawsuits.

When I go to the states, I don't ask for a salamino pizza....I ask for pepperoni. I get that it's not going to change. I'm just saying people should be aware of the difference, at the very least when they come here.

You're right, American creations like deep dish pizza and stuffed pizza are original and distinct from anything served in Italy...because they're awful.

First of all, it wouldn't be sold in Italy because no one would eat it. It's like eating a pound of grease in a bread bowl filled with enough tomato "sauce" to make soup, topped with some shredded plastic concoction that somehow passes FDA approval and is considered mozzarella cheese, on a layer of D-grade meat and vegetables. Then they inject the "pasta" crust with more fake plastic cheese that tastes like greasy cardboard. This is not American pizza. This is awful, artery-clogging, gag-inducing "food" that's not worthy of consumption.

Don't insult Chicago pizza by throwing it in with the rest of what people call deep dish pizza...it's not. Chicago pizza is more like a cross between focaccia and pizza...or pizza grossa, which, by the way, existed in Italy well before anyone in Chicago thought of it. Who do you think brought it to Chicago? It didn't just magically appear one day.

Have you ever even been to Italy? Do you even know how many different types of pizza there are here? This is a place that's about 10 miles from my house that specializes in what you'd call "deep dish" pizza, only it doesn't suck: Vecchio

This is a place that's about 10 miles from my house that specializes in what you'd call "deep dish" pizza, only it doesn't suck: Vecchio

LOL at the second comment! This place reminded me of Pizza Hut in the US! Must be a great place if they're comparable with the second worst pizza joint ever.

All this talk of pizza made got me in the mood for it tonight so I made 2 tonight. For the first I used deer burger, mushrooms, and onions with some spices. And the second was ham (not Canadian Bacon), olives, and pineapple over some New Mexico salsa I had laying around.

And come to think of it, I guess that Jucy Lucy I got in Minneapolis last week is German food. Who brought burgers to Minneapolis? German sailors from Hamburg, that's who!

And Coney Island hot dogs are Viennese/Austrian cuisine! Who brought wieners to New York? Austrian sailors from Wien, that's who!

Sorry dude, you're insufferable.

Trust me, that place is nothing like Pizza Hut. One idiot comment out of like 500 and that just negates all the others, right? And whaddya know, he was American. He's either an idiot or just trolling. That just reinforces my point, MD.

You know, there are people who also think Star Wars sucks, too...and they're idiots.

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Well if I must, then I must. When we keep bringing up the word pepper, it's black pepper that keeps coming to mind. That's just me. And I don't know why, but Roni just sounds like a noodle. I know it isn't nor does it come even close, but again, that's just me.

Lucky for me, this quirk is in only one part of the world and my chances of being part of an awkward situation are slim.

My goal was to teach you to read the entire article so that you would see that definitions change over time so you wouldn't accidentally use something from the early 1900's again.

It's like calling a pizza with salamino a pepperoni pizza; it's wrong but the vernacular is so common that people overlook it...just don't say it in Italy. The entire rest of the world is literally wrong in this, but no one really bothers to correct it because it's so common (peperoni are bell peppers, not spicy salame). For some reason the rest of the world fails to see the root word "pepper" in "peperone" and thinks it comes from a pig.

France doesn't call it that, Germany doesn't call it that, Spain doesn't call it that, Portugal doesn't call it that, Greece doesn't call it that, Czech Republic doesn't call it that, Hungary doesn't call it that, etc. etc.

So with that logic, we should stop calling hamburgers "hamburgers" then