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[cornholio1]

Hi I'm not an Aussie myself but just a quick question. I was watching a program a few months ago about food in Australia. On the program they were showing this wierd creature which was referred to as a bug of some sort but I can't remember the name of it or even find it on the internet. It was more like a land walking lobster than anything else. Does anyone know what that was? I have tried searching the internet all day and couldn't find it. If you know anything about this wierd cuisine please let me know. The memory lapse is just killing me.

[blackjack]

Is it this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Bay_bug

or this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

[blackjack]

Not an aussies tho

[joeyjoejoe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmain_bug ?

[BigBuds]

Mortan Bay bugs and Balmain Bugs are basically the same thing? If it's seafood and had bug in the name then that's what it is.

There's nothing else I know of in Australia that's seafood and has bug in it's name.

Oh yeah, I'm an Aussie.

[maryjanes]

Some sort of king cricket? You get them in Aus, NZ and South Africa. This is the South African vesion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn

[maryjanes]

or this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis

[D.D.]

I am not an Aussie but spent quite a few years there and we served Balmain Bugs at the first restaurant I worked in. Looked like little Lobsters.

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[cornholio1]

Yeah I think it's the morton bay bug now that I've seen the picture but I think they said in the show that it wasn't seafood or something like that so I assumed it must only lived on land. Thanks a lot for all the answers on this guys.