Hello All!

Perhaps someone who knows more Spanish than me can enlighten me on
current usage? I had thought "mariscos" were shrimps but I've heard it
used recently for all kinds of seafood, not just invertebrates as
Wikipedia indicates.

The Spanish Wikipedia says "Un marisco es, en gastronomía, un animal
marino invertebrado comestible. En esta definición se incluyen
normalmente los crustáceos, (camarones, picorocos, percebes, etc.),
moluscos (mejillones, almejas, berberechos, chipirones, etc.) y otros
animales marinos tales como algunos equinodermos (erizo de mar) y
algunos urocordados (piure).

Interestingly, the Spanish Wiki page has a picture of "mariscos" as
above that also includes two bottles of Heinz Ketchup!

This was prompted by a visit to a newish and excellent Mexican
restaurant near where I live, El Mariachi, whose speciality is seafood.


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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not