A name for the king prawn in Australia has a pale yellow, cream or light brown body with no obvious spots or stripes, and with a startling blue tail. They vary from 20 to 30 cm (8-12") in length and are found in mud, sand or on rocky bottoms in deep water all round the coasts of Australia. There are two types, the eastern king prawn with cream legs and the western king prawn with blue legs.
The Atlantic silverside or sandsmelt is a slender, round, oily marine fish which grows up to18 cm (7”). It is long with a translucent green back and silver bands lengthways along the sides and caught in estuaries along the coast of the eastern United States. It is usually deep-fried or grilled. In the United States these are often called whitebait. When tiny they are treated in the same way as whitebait in the UK.
A name for silver trevally, a white fish which is good to eat, caught around the southern coasts of Australia and Tasmania. The fillet has a noticeably red central muscle band. Confusingly, it is sometimes sold as silver bream.
Traditionally a sandwich consists of two pieces of bread with a savoury filling such as cheese or sliced meats. The sandwich has, however, developed from a snack to a meal and can contain a huge variety of fillings, from Mediterranean roasted vegetables with hummus to Coronation chicken or egg mayonaise, fish or any available savoury food. They originated because of the impatience of the 11th Earl of Sandwich who, in the middle of a game of poker in 1762 did not wish to withdraw from the gambling table for a meal and demanded that his beef be borught to him between two pieces of bread to enable him to continue. This then became a regular practice of his and the sandwich was introduced as an acceptable form of eating in polite society, though it had doubtless often happened prior to this time. It has to be said that, throughout history, people taking food to their workplace, mainly in the fields, have taken foods wrapped in pastry or bread for convenience of transport.
A variety of crab. A handsome crab found in bays and estuaries, preferring muddy or sandy bottoms, mainly from southern Queensland but found all round the northern coasts of Australia.
