"Peter-Lucas" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in news:6pbfl1F755rvU1
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>> Peter-Lucas wrote:
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in
>>> :
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>>>> Pretty simple, val. "shrimp scampi" is a misnomer. "Scampi" means
>>>> shrimp. Shrimp scampi translates to "shrimp shrimp" when you get
>>>> literal about it. To a lot of people it means shrimp in butter and
>>>> garlic sauce because that's what many restaurant menus call
> "scampi".
>>>> Not that there's anything wrong with that
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Scampi has always been 'small lobster'..... like the Pommy
>>> langoustine, or our Marron/Freshwater cray.
>>>
>>> Shrimp=prawn.
>>>
>>> Shrimp/prawns in butter and garlic, is Garlic Prawns/shrimp.
>>>
>>>
>>> In the USA, "scampi" is often the menu name for shrimp in
>>> Italian-American cuisine. The term "Scampi", by itself, is also the
>>> name of a dish of shrimp served in garlic butter and dry white wine,
>>>
>>
>> Gee, thanks Peter. Didn't I just say that?!
>>
>
>
> It was one part of a large text taken from Wiki. You also left off the
> part where it says you and your Pommy mates have *******ised the words
> to suit yourselves.
>
> You said Scampi means Shrimp. It doesn't.
>
> Scampi (to the rest of the world) means small lobster.
>
> Shrimp = Prawns.

Indeed in eating circles in these parts "scasmpi" means a butter and garlic
sauce. Jill obviously never ate scampi or she'd know the "secret"
ingredient is parsely. Some people cook, others read books.

Paul