Crawdad and 'mudbug' is something I always heard down South... I think the real words are 'crawfish' or 'crayfish' - basically they're tiny freshwater lobsters. Wiki says that they use 'crawfish' in Louisiana, but you only see that on fancy restaurant menus. I've never been to a 'crawfish boil' but I have been to a 'mudbug boil' and a 'crawdad boil'.
The photos I saw of someone holding a 'yabbie' made me wonder small lobster/big crawdad because it was bigger than the person's hand, but in the US our crawdads are usually only a few inches long (and oh-so-tasty), like big shrimp (what we'd call a prawn - they come about 10 - 15 per pound).
If what Moonvoice says is true, that for you a yabbie is a 'small' crawdad, I'd hate to see your 'large' crawdads! They could probably eat your head!
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Re: I pinch!
Date: 2008-08-06 05:39 pm (UTC)The photos I saw of someone holding a 'yabbie' made me wonder small lobster/big crawdad because it was bigger than the person's hand, but in the US our crawdads are usually only a few inches long (and oh-so-tasty), like big shrimp (what we'd call a prawn - they come about 10 - 15 per pound).
If what Moonvoice says is true, that for you a yabbie is a 'small' crawdad, I'd hate to see your 'large' crawdads! They could probably eat your head!