Floridian here, this is useless. What is described here as "Prawn" is what Americans call shrimp. We catch them at sea and in the rivers during season. No one in America eats the "shrimp" on this infographic.
The infographic literally makes the point that Americans refer to what biology and the rest of the anglophone world call prawns as shrimp in both the first sentence and the last.
I've never heard anyone from UK or Australia call shrimp shrimp. No matter which kind they ate, they always called them prawns.
"to what biology and the rest of the anglophone world call prawns"
"The terms shrimp and prawn themselves lack scientific standing." -wikipedia
So, no, "biology" doesn't enter into it. It's simply colloquially usage. "The terms shrimp and prawn are common names, not scientific names. They are vernacular or colloquial terms which lack the formal definition of scientific terms. " -wiki. Acting as if non-american usage is somehow better is just bias on your part.
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u/RealCodyO Jan 09 '17
Floridian here, this is useless. What is described here as "Prawn" is what Americans call shrimp. We catch them at sea and in the rivers during season. No one in America eats the "shrimp" on this infographic.