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JoeSpareBedroom

"Peter A" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> says...
>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:25:29 -0400, Peter A >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > If you have ever seen a clam, lobster, or
>> >oyster with a backbone
>>
>> Ok...start the ****ing contest. Seafood is seafood...unlike a pork
>> loin.
>>
>> I continue to believe that seafood is clams, mussels, squid, rainbow
>> trout, shark, flounder, shrimp, crawfish. Just because a shrimp
>> doesn't have gills, doesn't make it fowl. YMMV.
>>
>>
>
> Read before responding, please. The claim was that the term "fish"
> encompasses all seafood including lobster, oysters, etc. I was pointing
> out that this is false.
>
> By the way, shrimp have gills.
>
> --
> Peter Aitken

If it comes from the sea, why isn't it seafood? I suppose you could say
seaweed isn't seafood, since it's normally seen in Japanese cuisine, but not
what most of us would call "seafood restaurants".