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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.