shanks:

>For many of us, a size up from shrimp is a prawn. Certainly, they're scientifically the same thing.

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

My dictionary says a shrimp is a. any of various . . . crustaceans of the suborder Natantia, many species of which are edible. b. Any of various crustaceans similar to the shrimp.

My dictionary further defines prawn as an edible crustacean of the genus Palaemonetes and related genera, closely related to and resembling the shrimps.

But my point was that jumbo shrimp should not be categorized as an oxymoron because it does not mean big little. But I'm not prawn to carrying on this thread :). Shall we (s)cuttle it, or do we have to ask Jazz and Shona?



TEd