| Title: | How to Make them Goodies |
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| Created: | Tue Feb 18 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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While enjoying some (previously cooked and frozen) crayfish this evening I happened to think about them vs. langostinos vs. various varieties of lobsters. I know I used to catch "crawdads" in freshwater streams in Upstate New York when I was a kid. I believe most of the frozen Crayfish I buy here in New England are from the area around the Gulf of Mexico. I know that Lobsters vary from the Northern Atlantic variety (largest?) to the type found in Florida and the Gulf (Rock Lobsters?) to perhaps many other varieties throughout the world. I suspect they are all of the same family, even though they differ with respect to fresh/salt water habitat. Can anyone else fill us in on other differences, specifically with regard to food use? E.G. How does a langostino differ from a crawdad/crayfish? How's a rock lobster different from a North Atlantic other than size? Etc. -Jack
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| 3555.1 | PSW::PW::WINALSKI | Careful with that VAX, Eugene | Tue Jun 30 1992 12:52 | 11 | |
The lobsters of the U.S. Atlantic coast are a single species. As with many widely distributed species, there are regional variations, such as the size differences mentioned in the base note. I'm pretty sure that the North Atlantic lobster of Europe is also the same species. The Mediterranean langostino is a different, but closely related, species, as are the lobsters of the U.S. Pacific coast. Crawfish/crayfish/crawdads are a group of fresh-water crustaceans a bit more distantly related to the lobsters. --PSW | |||||
| 3555.2 | Americanus | FSOA::BERICSON | MRO1-1/L87 DTN 297-3200 | Mon Jul 06 1992 13:08 | 6 |
While in a restaurant outside of Paris, they had a lobster salad on the
menu.. I asked if it was native and they assured me that it was.. much
to my surprise, they surved me a whole lobster and it was
homerus AMERICANUS... Yup that lovely little bug we see in Maine.
Bob
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| 3555.3 | BOOVX2::MANDILE | Riding off into the sunset... | Thu Jul 09 1992 15:12 | 4 | |
"Maine" lobster, or cold water lobsters, v.s. the rock or
spiney lobster are different in tasted mainly due to water
temp. Also, Our (N.E.) lobsters have large claws, while
spiney lobsters do not.....
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