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Is a prawn meat

Updated: 10/7/2023
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Most American call a big shrimp a prawn and enjoy eating them deep fried, and covered in batter like coconut prawns. The truth is that in all other English speaking parts of the world, they are all called prawns no matter what the size. As long as we are adding culinary preferences, Thai people like to barbecue them and eat the whole thing, including the head. Actually they chew up the heads and spit out the shells and gills.

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Prawns are shrimp-like crustaceans, belonging to the sub-order Dendrobranchiata. Prawns are distinguished from shrimp by the gill structure which is branching in prawns. In various forms of English, the name 'prawn' is often applied to shrimp as well, generally the larger species are reffered to as prawns.

-A shrimp generally originates from saltwater and a prawn lives in fresh water. In some American grocery stores they sometimes call a large shrimp with the head attached a prawn but they are not. Prawns and shrimp are different

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tiger prawn Mantis Prawn. Very often it is where you are that determines whether the decapod is a shrimp or a prawn.

Any fresh water "shrimp" in the US is a prawn. U-15 (15 or fewer to the pound are sometimes called "King Prawn.")

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Yes, a shrimp is the same as a prawn

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Prawn is defiantly a meat. A small vertebrae from the sea is a life a form there for has muscles and organs there fore a meat soz jordan

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