Biological Differences
Classification:
Shrimp belong to the suborder Pleocyemata
Prawns belong to the suborder Dendrobranchiata
So, they’re technically different species.
Gills:
Shrimp have plate-like gills
Prawns have branching gills
Claws:
Shrimp have larger front pincers (first pair of legs)
Prawns have larger second pincers
The terms “shrimp” and “prawn” are cultural, not scientific or biological. The same creature may be a shrimp, or a prawn, or both, mostly depending on what country you’re in.
In the UK, “shrimps” traditionally refers to very small marine crustacea. Once they would be netted along the shoreline, cooked and sold shell-on as a seaside delicacy. Customers would have to remove the shells themselves. Nowadays, shrimps are seldom available commercially, as their small size makes machine peeling impractical, and hand-peeling is too labour intensive to make a profit
The larger cousins of shrimps are known as prawns (although they may just be older, larger, examples of the same species). Prawns are sufficiently large that they can be peeled mechanically, so are widely commercially exploited, and can be found in most supermarkets.
See here for a good explanation of the differences in naming conventions:
Just to make things more convoluted, please tell me where Scampi fit into this…
Nowadays, most commercial scampi is made from monkfish tails, although the cheaper frozen varieties are often manufactured from industrially formed mixed fish.
Traditional mediterranean scampi was made from langoustine tails - but, just to further confuse the issue, in the UK, langoustines were traditionally sold as “Dublin Bay Prawns”.
Does any of this make sense? Of course not.
What, they’re not even crustaceans anymore?? 
There’s usually a weasel phrase somewhere on the packaging “Formed Scampi”, or something similar, but yes, a lot of supermarket scampi, and the stuff served in many restaurants, is industrially manufactured from a variety of seafood meats.
Of course, you can get genuine langoustine scampi - but it’s expensive. You have to be careful with your food labels. Caveat Emptor.
I like to think we know the difference in these parts. When we order shrimp, it comes from the ocean.
However, shrimp scampi is very popular and obviously, can’t be both but is actually just shrimp prepared in the manner of scampi which means, sauteed in a sauce.
Then there is the whole crawfish thing…tiny lobsters only not lobsters. Boiled. Stink. Oh Lord do they stink…
All my life they were called crawdads and for fun we would put food (usually bacon)on the end of a piece of fishing line and drop it into their mounds where they would snap onto it with a claw and we would reel them out
So in Louisiana it is a crawfish but in Arkansas a crawdad. I was never tempted to eat the things as a kid and my stand has not changed as an adult.
I’m starting to think there might be a difference of definition of the terms between the US and the UK… 
Most of our shrimp is from the Gulf…the one that got renamed.
Here are shrimp from Alabama
2 of which look very much like prawn
Since a lot of fresh water feeds into the Gulf which is salt water, I would imagine there is a mixed bag near the shores
But when it comes to shrimp/prawn, I eat them all. Yum! 
I will take a pass on that teddy bear one…
But the Greenland one looks tasty. Another reason to seize the place. 
Mantis Shrimp.
The largest can grow to 40 cm (16 inches) and attack their prey with long spiked claws, which can strike with a force of 1500 newtons - and can punch right through your thumb.
They deserve to be eaten.
I have nothing to add to this conversation except for f@$£!#g prawns
Wow. You just had to go there, didn’t you! No fair. Now I’m drooling. [pauses to see if shrimp and cocktail sauce are on hand]
The replies about thus crusty ocean delight are getting delicious!
Still have yet to listen to any of their music but nothing makes me feel more national pride than seeing my countrymen embarrass the British government on the global stage. <3 My heritage bias is showing 
What crackdown?
T has been using National Guard and police to round up every homeless person in DC. They are being sent to mental hospitals. He claims crime is rampant despite facts showing it has dropped in the last few years.
Most think this is a response to a DOGE staffer getting mugged
I believe it is his mental disposition. He hates to see anything that is not ‘beautiful’ and shiny.
There is a huge push by him to redesign all government buildings. Any place people access which belongs to a branch of the government. He wants everything beautified.
And he hates seeing people who are dirty or maimed.
Ah, still that thing?
That would be absolutely hilarious. I mean, obviously it’s kind of tragic, but the irony that an expensive military action and the braindead decision to put homeless people into very expensive mental institutions would be caused by a member of the department of government efficiency , founded with the intention to save the government money, had an unpleasant encounter in the street would just be too precious to not laugh about it very extensively…
Festival worker tries to remove Palestine flag from the Mary wollapers during a set.
Goes as well as you’d think 
Yesterday, a famine was declared in Gaza, where at least 65 people were killed by Israeli attacks, all the while Israel pushed ahead with plans to split the West Bank in two. These are the important facts about yesterday.
We are uploading this video so everybody can see @victoriousfestival cut our gig short for having a Palestinian flag on stage.
The festival have released a misleading statement to the press claiming they cut our sound because of a discriminatory chant and not the band’s call to Free Palestine. Our video clearly shows a Victorious crew member coming on stage, interfering with our show, removing the flag from the stage and then the sound being cut following a chant of “Free Palestine”. The same crew member is later heard in the video saying “you aren’t playing until the flag is removed”.
We completely reject Victorious’ portrayal of today’s events and request that they retract their statement immediately.
We know this is getting some attention and we don’t want another distraction which takes attention away from the genocide that is happening in Palestine.
FREE PALESTINE
As with every decision made by the UK government, they always forget to factor in how this will work up the north of Ireland, especially when you consider it’s recent history of you know, actual proscribed terrorist groups.
If they do not routinely arrest and charge people for professing support for the IRA, UVF or UDA, organisations which each murdered hundreds of people, how proportionate is it to arrest someone for wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of an organisation that to date has committed acts of criminal damage?
Brexit wasn’t even that long ago guys, did you already forget about Northern Ireland again? 
