Question for our Aussie readers
 

What in the name of Bob is a "Yabbie"?

I think it is some kind of amphibian but require a more concrete definition so as to better understand an Australian anecdote.

Thank you

It appears to be either a small freshwater lobster or large crawfish.

What Wolf said!

Basically a little lobster. We used to catch them as kids. Range in size from less than an inch up to about 6 inches. Lethal nippers - they seem to have a knack for getting you on the little web of skin between your fingers...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b322/perrys/yabby.jpg
Supposedly good eating, but I've never been particulartly impressed with them.

Yabbie's are nasty lil critters!! but they can make great pets.

They are tasty if they arent from a really muddy dam.

is there an australian alive that hasnt gone yabbie fishing?

you gotta pick em up behind the pincers to not get snipped

http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/soer/imag...d_yabby2-m.jpg

So prettymuch it's an overglorified, slightly scarier crawdad?

Yabbie-ing...not yabbie fishing, ya bloody toorak farmer.

Oh my.
Is that what is sold as "bugs" at a restaurant?

Nup.

Moreton bay bug (slipper lobster)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b322/perrys/bugs2.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b322/perrys/bugs1.jpg

Mmmmm...Moreton bay bug, sweeetest of the sweet crustaceionies... cooked properly, the flesh just peels gently away from the shell, with the slightest squeeze of lemon and some seafoof sauce on the side...mmmmmm




'scuse me, I'd like to be alone with the seafood now.

sorry for compensating for our foreign friends.

and im at least 6 train stations away from toorak thankyou very much

Awwww, want me to kiss it all betterer??

Ohh, I'm so at Toorak Rd shopping this weekend!!

ewww why?

Hmmm, I'm gonna assume you dont mean why would I wanna kiss it better and answer why I am going shopping on Toorak Rd. :p

There's 2 shops I love there, a jewellery shop and a shoe shop...other than that I prefer the 2 DFO's

hehe, im a 2 min drive from chadstone myself. but the DFO's aint bad

Someone beat me to it but we have a dam in our front yard / Paddock and we go yabbying all the time 0 just to see how many we catch i couldnt bear to throw them in a boiling pot of salty water poor things. (its a wives tale round here that you'll only catch Yabbies in months that have a "Y" in them. so far it been pretty true)

these babies were caught a couple of days ago in our dam... the picture posted before of the large, dark blue yabbie looks like its from a coastal lake or breeding dam.. the wild ones here are red from the muddy conditions and much less "spikey".

Yes, I assumed that as well. But now what the bloody hell's a DFO?

A "Direct Factory Outlet" if it's the same as what we've got up here. A supposedly cheaper shopping centre, 'cause they cut out the 'middle man'. Female shoppers heaven - the reverse applies for men.

its not that bad, cept its a maze that you have to walk all the way through to get out again. not as ikea though

Sun Sparkz - around here, we are only allowed to catch Fresh Water Crays in the months with an r in them. I've never heard that wives tale afore.

Ohhh I love love IKEA, but youre right Kagen, its a bitch to get around...so glad they have lil arrows to help out bewildered shoppers.

Chaddies good too, but DFO takes the cake.

Hagar - My ex loved shopping with me, and he actually had a decent opinion when I asked "does my arse look big in this??":p

Up here, months without an R tend to be the warmer months, (may, june, july, august for those of you w/o a calendar handy) in the days prior to refrigeration (that would be 1995 in Australia, right?) shellfish didn't keep so well.

version two is that is when we get the red tides more frequently making the shellfish even less kosher than they are to begin with.