Shrimp is an important type of seafood. They are so tasty!
I love shrimp just had some last night actually I love them cooked all ways but made a shrimp scampi.
In the united kingdom they are more commonly called prawns.
We actually have prawns here they are more on the sweeter side to me but they are much bigger in size.
Are they freshwarer prawns? I've read they're some prawn aquaculture farm in the US.
Now that part I'm not sure now that you stated that they be in the local fish market so I would hope they are fresh water prawns and not that injected farm raised food.
Freshwater prawn farming
A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawns or shrimp for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming. Unique problems are introduced by the developmental life cycle of the main species (the giant river prawn, "Macrobrachium rosenbergii").
The global annual production of freshwater prawns (excluding crayfish and crabs) in 2003 was about 280,000 tons, of which China produced some 180,000 tons, followed
Shrimp and prawn as food
Shrimp and prawn are important types of seafood that are consumed worldwide. Although shrimp and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance and the terms are often used interchangeably in commercial farming and wild fisheries. A distinction is drawn in recent aquaculture literature, which increasingly uses the term "prawn" only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and "shrimp" for the marine penaeids.
In the United Kingdom, the word "prawn" is more common on menus than