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I love these Ziggy, they are called scampi around here.

But bear no resemblence to those prawn like things in loads of bread crumbs sold in the freezer cabinets.

Bearing in mind the catch, I now see why they are expensive.

 

I only usually buy them 2 at a time Pete, but they are worth it.

Just wish they'd come as far South as the English Channel, guess the water is too warm for them here.

 

used to go crayfish fishing in SA .... we called them crayfish, not sure what they call them here, but they are huge (your prawns were called shrimps in SA)



simple:

find a rocky area on the shore ... get a long bamboo pole and a long string/chord ....

tie that to a womans tights (stockings) filled with mussels scarped off the rocks and crushed with the back of a spade (illegal to do this)

lower the 1/2 filled stocking/tights into the water next to the rocks

wait 2 minutes ....

the crayfish try and get to the crushed mussels and their feet get caught into the stocking ....

remove the crayfish and get away as fast as you can (illegal to fish this way, but it works in minutes)

split the tail, remove the thick black vein ....put on a BBQ with low heat, and add garlic butter .... serve with a hundred ice cold beers

food for a king

 

We do get them in our waters, there are 2 of them in the Aquarium on The Cobb at Lyme Regis, but I think they were donated by a trawler as they are a bit of a rarity.

They were huge, about a foot long.

 

I think crayfish are called "crayfish" here *dim*,
Never tried them myself, I dont think they are easy to get hold of.

Yep we do get a lot of North Atlantic prawns that are nearer shrimp size, but I much prefer them to those overpriced king prawns that they sell.
A bit like eating tasteless rubber.

The brown shrimps are the best, small, but very tasty.
You can often get them around the coast here, rarely fresh though, some sell frozen and they are awful.

 

I never buy the farmed prawns now. I dropped like a sack of whelks after eating some a while back, really bad headache, temperature, aching.

Looked into them afterwards,

March 2003 - Chemical crustaceans: pesticides and prawn farming

Seems everything the West bans gets thrown into Prawn Farming in Asia.

 

Right I guess if it tastes like treetreetreetree, it probably is treetreetreetree:WINK1:

 

Too Treeing right

I did bulk up some self caught Prawns with some frozen North Atlantic ones in a meal, I could taste which ones were which. Don't understand why though, as after watching the Trawlerman Series, it seems the Trawlers put theirs on ice straight away, same as I do

Maybe there are richer pickings for the ones I catch from the Harbour than in the North Sea?

 

on a sideline ...

prawns that are uncooked and that have a greyish blue colour are not normal sea prawns .... they are prawns that come from places like asia and that originate from fresh water

(loads in supermarkets such as Tesco) .... read the labels and they do not state that they are freshwater prawns .... as if they do, very few would buy them

I stand to be corrected, but that was a warning given to me by a very good friend who was a commercial fisherman ....

I always buy the more expensive pink prawns (normally from the atlantic)

 

The Atlantic prawns are cheaper than the big ones, king prawns jumbo prawns or whatever name they give them.

I was under the impession that they go pink when cooked, so those bluey looking ones were uncooked.
Anyway dont buy them so I might be wrong.

 

to recap: the blue prawns go pink once cooked (all prawns go pink once cooked) ....

however, all blue coloured prawns are freshwater prawns

 

So all uncooked prawns are freshwater ones?

I'm not sure.

 

no .... ALL saltwater prawns are pink in colour (cooked or raw)....

any raw prawn that is blue in colour is a freshwater prawn (and is not really a prawn, but family of the shrimp, and labelled as such in many countries)

Tesco sells raw pink prawns from time to time ... they are normally labeled as from the Atlantic etc

yet they do not label the blue prawns as freshwater prawns, as that will put people off

In countries like south africa, all/most prawns sold are raw/uncooked and are frozen .... the blue coloured ones are labeled as freshwater shrimp

many shrimp are mis-labelled as prawns in the UK in the large supermarkets

 

Thankyou *dim* I did not know that.

Next question, what is the difference between a prawn and a shrimp?:o