Topic started by Mani (@ spider-mtc-tf042.proxy.aol.com) on Wed Nov 22 11:30:37 .
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What do you guys think of the Periyar brand pickles from Kerala? They sell it in Indian stores, and it is very tasty, especially the narangya, and manga pickles. Which kind of pickles you like better, Andhra style, Tamil style, or Kerala style?

Responses:

• From: Krishnan (@ 208.48.199.162) on: Wed Nov 22 12:39:35 EST 2000
  
  I vote for Andhra style pickles. Especially the Andhra Avakkai oorugai.
  
  
• From: Ranga (@ client-207-68-36-122.mdvnf.com) on: Wed Nov 22 15:18:46 EST 2000
  
  TSR pickles are the best. The only problem is finding them in the U.S.
  
  
• From: Mani (@ spider-tp043.proxy.aol.com) on: Wed Nov 22 16:06:58 EST 2000
  
  I vote for the Kerala style pickles, I do also have Andhra pickles in my kitchen, but periyar is the usual brand I would buy.
  
  
• From: T. Jacob (@ ) on: Thu Feb 15 05:02:16
  
  Can you please let us know manufacturers of fish/prawn pickles. We are interested in marketing these items in Delhi/New Delhi. Kindly respond.
  
  
• From: ravi sundaram (@ 192.149.1.187) on: Thu Feb 15 08:30:41
  
  What is the difference between prawns and shrimps?
  (Excuse my ignorance I am a vegetarian ;-))
  
  
• From: paamaran (@ tog-wakko2.prognet.com) on: Thu Feb 15 13:26:49
  
  Ravi
  
  prawn vs shrimp
  From: Dr A. Diter, alain.diter@presidence.pf
  Date: 05 Jul 2000
  Time: 00:57:23
  Remote Name: 202.3.229.219
  
  
  Comments
  To my experience of scientist having been working for 10 years in the field of shrimp, there is no academic difference between shrimp and prawns. People, including researchers specialized in the area, call either shrimp or prawn any of those tasty crustaceans that you can find in freshwater or seawater. Nevertheless, depending on the regions, people are more used to call them either shrimp or prawns. Also, some of them prefer to call prawns the bigger ones but there is no fundamental rule. Best regards and keep on having great time by eating them. Alain Diter
  
  Shrimp or Prawn?
  There is often confusion regarding the difference between a shrimp and a prawn. Physically they look very similar but there is one sure way to tell them apart. In shrimps or carideans the side plate of the second segment of the abdomen overlaps the segments in front and behind. Prawns, most of which belong to the family Penaeidae of the group Dendrobranchiata, have all the abdominal side plates overlapping tile-like from the front. A more fundamental difference but one impossible to appreciate in a single specimen is that female prawns do not brood eggs but shed them into the currents where they develop independently. It would therefore make sense to call all member s of the Penaeidae "prawns" and members of the Caridean "shrimps" and this is what most Australians do. King prawns and banana prawns are names understood in this continent for penaeids sold frozen at the markets. The tiny shrimps bought in cans or froz en are imported carideans. Confusion arises when we hear Americans refer to prawns as "shrimp".
  
  
• From: ravi sundaram (@ 192.149.1.187) on: Thu Feb 15 15:12:07
  
  Is it possible to distinguish between the males and females? by taste I mean. Someone was telling me a great story of how he caught the restaraunter cheating in India by serving male or female when the other kind was ordered. For the life of me I could not figure out if he was serious or he was just pulling me leg!
  
  
• From: Malar Ravi (@ toronto-hse-ppp3695225.sympatico.ca) on: Tue Jul 29 19:37:47
  
  English(British) call them Prawns,North American's call them Shrimps.That is the only difference nothing else
  
  

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