Of all the millions of questions typed into internet search engines by curious Britons, what would you say were the most common? “Why is the sky blue?” and “What are next week’s Lottery numbers?” maybe.
Well, how about: “What is in scampi?”
Curiously, this last question is posed with huge frequency in cyberspace — for, it seems, while we enjoy eating GBP 50?million worth of these deep-fried nuggets of loveliness every year — served with a pile of chunky chips, a wedge of lemon and dollop of tartare sauce — few of us know precisely what is in them.
