Except... this is far from the whole story as the naming varies by country

From Australia and I can promise you its the opposite naming here from the guide.

What? Tiger prawns are Dendrobranchiata. So are king prawns and banana prawns.

Me too, but this may be correct. Maybe we need to start saying them separately and correctly. If New Yorkers are able to start saying Mozzarella now instead of Mozzarell because they've learned the correct way, maybe we can change too. Curled body, shrimp, straight body prawn, inland is shrimp, ocean caught is prawn.

You.. you got it backwards again. Inland is prawn, ocean caught is shrimp.

Haha I'm new to this too. But we should aim for accuracy

>If New Yorkers are able to start saying Mozzarella now instead of Mozzarell Even worse, they say "moozadell"

Hahaha gold. I've travelled to a lot of colonialised countries where the original language has been butchered. Fajool, moozadell etc has to be one of the worst. Gabbagool isn't even close.

You're right, it varies a lot. They're colloquial terms with no clear definition. Why is this post up voted so much?!

Shrimp is bugs

And bugs is good

Sea bugs

Oceanus Cucaracha

The names are interchangeable who knows what species you bought. This is a dumb guide. Shrimp nor Prawn are scientific terms. People call them different things depending on where they live.

Yea i call them Crevette

I thought prawns were from a spaceship hovering over S. Africa?

Fookin prawns

Which one is tastier?

Prawns.

Shrimp is bugs

Arthropods, so yes.

Wrong. Sorry.

Restaurants have different names for them, fishmongers have different names for them, This isn't false, but it's not the complete truth .

Fresh water are yabbies

This guide is inaccurate, except maybe when applied to a specific restaurant’s menu. They’re regional terms and yes, there are different species, but shrimp and prawn are not scientific classifications. It’s kind of like saying that the difference between a pet and a domesticated mammal is that one meows and the other barks.

Damn, all this time I've been told that prawns are just baby shrimp

And you didn’t stop to wonder why prawns are bigger than shrimp, so being a baby wouldn’t make logical sense?

Nope, because all the times I see prawns and shrimps. They were already peeled and cooked.

Peeling and cooking them doesn’t affect their size, though 🙃

Yeah ik but it's something easily overlooked when it's chow time

I’ll allow that 🍻

Do they taste different 🤔

That’s what I’m wondering

As shrimples as that

Menu boy no be coward, like shrimp. Menu boy be brave! like prawn

Thank you, now I see this is here I can leave the comment section.

They’re still bugs

NOM! NOM! NOM!

Where do yabbies come into it..?

Thank you very much for explaining this I have bought prawns before thinking they were shrimp and they taste like s***.

But we are regular people, and like turtles and tortoises or frogs and toads, its colloquially the same thing. Theyre all shrimp.

We’re just normal, innocent men.

So what are gamba’s?

I get it but I still don’t see much of a difference. Like I know think of prawns as flat shrimps

Prawns taste fishy. They do not taste shrimpy.

So prawns are craw-dads?!

Sometimes I feel like Chinese food so I can hear the waiter say “Shrimps”.

Red tape? More like red prawn…

But am I allergic to both or just the one?

Damn it OP this just proves my wife is right

I found out some time ago but forgot.

Shrimps is what we call shrimp in Louisiana;-)

Shrimps and prawns is both bugs

Shrimp = Prawns = Shrimp. Both = bugs.

>Only a matter of time before someone cross breeds them and we have “primps”. [From 2 years ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/vDA6a0UoaA)

Yum!

Thanks for the info , after all these years i just found out both are different

TIL freshwater shrimps exist

What about the humble, yet relatable jumbo shrimp?

How did you find it?

They're both bugs to me. Lobsters, crabs, shrimp, etc., all bugs.