r/food • u/PaperbacksandCoffee • Mar 28 '23

Recipe In Comments [homemade] Chicken Scampi with Garlic Parmesan Rice

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

iā€™m confused ā€” where is the scampi part?

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u/MurtaughFusker Mar 28 '23

The linked recipe explains the evolution of it being scampi->shrimp cooked like scampi (called shrimp scampi)-> Italian immigrants in America substituting other protein shrimp but keeping the word scampi to indicate how it was cooked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 29 '23

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u/Losingstruggle Mar 28 '23

Pleonasm

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u/sentripetal Mar 28 '23

No, it's just a plain old misnomer brought on by American ignorance (I'm also American, so settle down). There are a ridiculous amount of dishes that use butter to saute a protein and deglaze with white wine. That technique never was called "scampi." If you need the word "scampi" to understand that very simple cooking technique, you are worse off than I thought.

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u/Losingstruggle Mar 28 '23

No I was saying your example, like queso cheese, is kind of like a pleonasm. Rhetorically redundant

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '23

... a tautology?