G’day!
Okay, it’s not Australia Day for two days yet, but School Spirit doesn’t update on a Saturday, so you get this year’s Australia Day strip two days early! Just to clear things up, we do have ‘shrimps’ in Australia, but they’re the tiny, tiny little crustaceans we put on pizzas. The ‘shrimp’ Hoges (Australians haven’t called him Paul Hogan for decades now) put on the barbie in that Australian tourism ad from 1984 is a prawn. Americans call things funny names, eh?
Cheers.
No raw prawns here, eh? ;)
Also, shouldn’t it be ‘blowflies’?
Hmm… yes. Yes, it should.
Another fix up job! :)
(I was going to put a raw prawn reference in there, but thought that might have just been silly! :) )
I was going to accuse you of perpetuating that particular misnomer, but you explained yourself. The other place one might find “shrimp” in Australia is in a sufficiently retro restaurant, covered in pink mayonnaise as a “shrimp cocktail”. Actually, I just ate some prawns of that size in some Chah Kway Teow, but I don’t think anyone would call them “shrimp”.
BTW, what did panel 1 say before it was corrected to “blowflies”?
It said ‘blowfiles’.