Bugger the chilis, haven't had a beer for wel over 3 years now either.
Not a wowser by any means though.

Well as a kid we always just called 'hot sauce.'

No probs, have heard them referred to as Shrimps more than Prawns though.

@Triphid Yeah. I don't get Americans. Then there are the Lobsters. You call them all Crawdads?

@PondartIncbendog Crawdads? THat's not an australian term. I think they might be a band tho.

@PondartIncbendog " Crawdads" what the f*** are Crawdads, we have Prawns, Shrimps, ( they come from the rivers, etc,) Crayfish from the sea and Yabbies from the rivers, dams and lakes (WHEN they have actual WATER in them that is), Yabbies taste way way better that Prawns, more meat on the tails and in the claws as well.

@Triphid We call the yabbies, crawfishor crawdads, mudbugs.

@PondartIncbendog Imo, NOTHING comes close to beating a good feed of freshly caught and cooked Yabbies.
When I was a kid we'd often catch Yabbies as big as 1.25 litre drink bottles with claws strong enough to snap a pencil and tails longer than your hand from wrist to the finger tips and a wide as three fingers put together.

@Triphid So, you have no animal called a lobster? It seems you call them yabbies too.

@PondartIncbendog Some choose to call Crayfish Lobsters, Yabbies are a freshwater crustacean and come in a variety of types from different States across Australia, eg. Marron in Western Australia, Murray River Crayfish in South Australia, Yabbies mainly out here Far Western New South Wales, etc, but they ALL are predominantly freshwater crustaceans unlike the saltwater crustaceans.

@Triphid I didn't know ppl ate yabbies. For my money,,, I'd forget all the above and die happy with 100 plain oysters and a bottle of chardy.

@MsDemeanour In the south of the USA people love the "yabbies". They come up in the middle of lawns in some low areas. I still catch them for my aquarium and my pond.

But you don't eat them? Have you got any pics of your Pond Art? I"m trying to figure out your moniker.
Pond art incy Ben dog? Ponder Inc. Bee and Dog? I'm foggy this morning. I just can't get it.

@MsDemeanour In this region Yabbies are considered as a delicacy, we catch them using "drop-nets" baited with either raw meat or slivers of toilet soap ( I prefer to use pieces of a cheap bar of choclate, the yabbies go crazy when they get a whiff of chocolate in the water) hang in the nets from small bags made of netting material.
Once we've caught enough, they're dropped into boiling salty water, killing them instantly and the salt causes them to expel all the taste of mud, etc, then we let them cool down, peel off the shell from the tails and the claws and eat the meat. or preserve the meat in jars with vinegar for later.
It usuallt takes about 10 - 20 decent sized yabbie tails to make up a kilo of meat depending on what time of the seaon they've been caught.
Yabbies usually bury themselves deep into the mud (anywhere from 1 metre deep to 2 or 3 metres down) from around late April through until early September and go into hibernation surviving on the fat, etc, they've stored in theit tails and claws so catching them in early September means you're only going to get ones with very little worth-while eating meat on them.
An unwritten rule among fishermen out this way that IF you catch female yabbies carrying eggs under her tail, you put her back in the water and let her go, sadly though, we now get visiting fishermen from other States coming here who don't follow that rule at all.

@MsDemeanour

@PondartIncbendog Nice one .