James Silverton wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Around here, mariscos is synonymous with sea food. Shrimp are camàrones

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Janet Wilder
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