[Sca-cooks] Chai, was Introduction and Question

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Wed May 15 03:22:55 PDT 2002


Also sprach Daniel Myers:
>  >Its name, while a tad silly, isn't really a redundancy in the way
>>"chai tea" is... "chai" and "tea" are basically the same word, while
>>"shrimp" and "scampi" are not.
>
>I know, but I figured that shrimp is the closest thing to scampi one is
>going to find in most places throughout the U.S.
>
>And to make it sillier, they're (Led Robster, et al) are now selling
>"chicken scampi".  Makes me think of aquatic poultry from nearby a nuclear
>power plant.

And then, of course, there are the ubiquitous chicken fingers (bad
enough for obvious reasons), and pseudo-chicken tenderloins (just
plain dishonest). Sometimes even flaked-and-formed. Yum.

Adamantius



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