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One of my holiday jobs was stacking supermarket shelves, and I seem to remember being told then there was a legal difference under consumer protection. Above a certain number to the pint? gallon? they were prawns, and below that they were shrimps. It made sense to me, or why is "shrimp" used as an insult for the smaller amongst us? You can't imagine a lager lout yelling "hey prawn" rather than "hey shrimp" can you?

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