On 9/17/14, 6:42 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:

> (Scampi means shrimp in Italian,
> so "shrimp scampi" is redundant. It's garlic flavored shrimp.

Hmmm. "The actual word for "shrimp" in Italian is gambero or gamberetto,
plural gamberi or gamberetti."
???

According to Wikipedia, Scampo/scampi in Italy refers to the same
Norwegian lobster as it does legally in many other places, but is also
used colloquially to refer to various other shellfish.

-- Larry