Nancy Young > wrote in message >...
> Peter Aitken wrote:
> >
> > "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>
> > > Sorry, but that's the oldest news on the planet, yes, we know, scampi
> > > means some kind of shrimp or lobster. This discussion has been held
> > > here many, many times.
>
> > Yet many people here still refer to "shrimp scampi."
>
> It's my strongest argument that shrimp scampi has come to mean a
> style of preparation. Shrimp Scampi, Chicken Scampi, yeah, we
> get what it means. Scampi can mean all it wants to in Italian,
> it means something else here. That's all I was saying.

Doesn't mean that in the UK, where there is an important scampi
fishery. Scampi is Norway lobster, period. "Shrimp scampi" is garlic
prawns or something like that. God forbid I should ever encounter
"chicken scampi".

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Chris Green