Wikipedia taught me a new word today. While I was learning about scampi, it treated me to this delightful sentence:
The word “scampi” is often construed as that style of preparation, not an ingredient, hence the seemingly pleonastic “shrimp scampi” or the seemingly impossible “chicken scampi”.
I would also like an explanation as to why this photograph of the American dish ’scampi’ is captioned thusly:
Since you’re rich and spoiled, it might not seem like the economy has gone into the toilet, so I’d just like to bring that to your attention – The economy has gone into the toilet.