10/25/2002: Defiant shellfish - Page 2

That Guy · 10-26-2002, 07:46 AM

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Originally posted by Logan
Why would you use the informal mode in one sentence and the formal mode in the next?

See the other post, spanky.

Beletseri · 10-26-2002, 08:10 AM

The only issue I have with the photo is that it is bright red. Most of these types of critters don't turn bright red until they are cooked. Maybe it was posed just before it was consumed?

chrisinhouston · 10-26-2002, 08:35 AM

In Texas and Louisiana they are know as "mudbugs", and I do suck the heads!

Leus · 10-28-2002, 08:45 AM

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Originally posted by ElPresidente1972
Languste sounds like a bad translation of the Spanish word "langostina" which is a european equivalent to a crawfish / crayfish. Think of a lobster with the claws of a fiddler crab, that's what the critter in question looks like. Bigger than American crawfish, IIRC.
-EP

Actually, "langostina" sounds like a wrong transcription of the spanish word "langostino" (Penaeus Kerathurus). The closest that "Languste" sounds to a spanish word is "Langosta". The Langosta does have big claws. There are many "langostas", but the one pictured in the photo looks like a Bogavante (Homarus Gammarus).

Nic Name · 10-28-2002, 01:19 PM

I think that Beletseri is correct.

The red color of the creature indicates a boiled or dehydrated lobster.

Dehydration doesn't seem to be this lobster's problem!

Leus · 10-28-2002, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by Nic Name
I think that Beletseri is correct.

The red color of the creature indicates a boiled or dehydrated lobster.

Dehydration doesn't seem to be this lobster's problem!

Nothing wrong with that. But the Cigala (Norway Lobster) is somewhat reddish, and it's quite similar to the sucker portrayed here. Not brightly red, mind you, but we can only guess about optics and the such in this photo.

This guy is a Cangrejo Real. It's not a lobster, but it is red.

This other guy is a Norway Lobster.

Here is another photo, of... other lobster. Red, not boiled.

What I mean is: you don't have to be boiled to be red, even if you are a lobster.

How amusing

10-26-2002, 08:10 AM	#17
Beletseri Yeah sez you Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 206	The only issue I have with the photo is that it is bright red. Most of these types of critters don't turn bright red until they are cooked. Maybe it was posed just before it was consumed?

10-26-2002, 08:35 AM	#18
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	In Texas and Louisiana they are know as "mudbugs", and I do suck the heads!

10-28-2002, 01:19 PM	#20
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	I think that Beletseri is correct. The red color of the creature indicates a boiled or dehydrated lobster. Dehydration doesn't seem to be this lobster's problem!

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