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Quote from: Stoker on February 14, 2021, 07:46:25 pm

First off Jim, I've got to ask if there's any nice properties for sale in your vicinity these days?

Next off, I said shrimp and that is unfortunately what I meant. Nick summed it up well with the Lobster Tail comparison. Yes we do know about Prawns, but that's not what we generally get to be able to put on the Barbie.

Also, I don't think Paul misspoke either, as he likely wasn't trying to promote anything to you Aussies ... but rather he was sending a message to us 'mercans, and shrimp was likely a better choice for the message, a bit of "tongue in cheek there" I suspect, though clearly what he's holding doesn't qualify as shrimp .... not in my book anyway!!!

There was quite a commotion when Hoge's (a truly famous Aussie who used to have an extremely funny comedy TV show called the Paul Hogan Show loooooong before Crocodile Dundee fame) called the humble Aussie prawn a 'shrimp'.

https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-australians-disown-the-phrase-put-another-shrimp-on-the-barbie/

Also another thing certain to confuse, lobsters are for the majority of Aussies called 'Crayfish' in Australia or 'Spiny Crayfish'. But are marketed overseas as Southern Rock Lobsters (mainly to Asian markets). They don't have those two big nippers that your American lobsters possess -


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P.s Daniel.....there's some vacant blocks of land for sale that owners moved on from after the fires. They have been cleaned up now.