If you're a Queenslander the things on the left are yabbies - used for bait only and caught in salt water - as shown on my photo from yesterday. If you're a Queenslander the thing on the right is a Lobby - caught in fresh water and yummy to eat. But apparently, after reading yesterday's comments, we Queenslanders are strange creatures and most of the rest of Australia calls lobbies yabbies - I don't know if they have our yabbies at all.... and you sure wouldn't eat them. Confusing hey!! :)
P.S. these are not my images - they are from Google images.
Oh that makes sense I spent my primary school years in Adelaide and we used to catch and eat yabbies but then was confused by the larger looking non edible looking yabbies on qld.... 😂
Yabbies and Lobbies - that is SO Australian!! Hubby used to enjoy a bowl of Morton Bay Bugs when we lived in Sydney. I'm allergic to shellfish, so I kept well away, but he always had a smile on his face eating those guys!
@casablanca How sad that you can't eat seafood - But how lucky for your hubby - not having to share! We're working out way up the Qld coast at the moment - lots of yummy seafood - including bugs. But the best has been some precooked and precleaned Spanner Crabs - they look a bit like a Bug but have a much sweeter taste and texture. Yummo... :)
@fbailey@jacqbb@shutterbug49 Hi Fb, Jacqueline and Shutterbug - it's funny how alike yabbies and prawns look - but in real life you'd never even think of eating a yabby - they're squishy and horrible - and they bite with their claws too. And the lobbies are very much like a small lobster - I guess that's where they got their name from. Thanks for your comments and interest. Cheers Rob
@robz I will try to remember to take a shot of some of them awaiting their fate at the fish counter in the supermarket- I don't think I'll be in their natural environment for a while due to the current pandemic. )o: But I sure would like to be!
