Apple's original shallow-pan emoji depicted which kind of paella?
Answer
Paella de marisco
Answer
Paella de marisco
Apple’s original shallow-pan emoji depicted paella de marisco.
When Apple first released its version of the shallow-pan-of-food emoji, the image showed saffron-colored rice with seafood, including shrimp, rather than the meat-and-bean ingredients associated with traditional paella valenciana. That made it recognizable internationally as seafood paella, or paella de marisco.
The emoji was approved in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and reached Apple devices with iOS 10.2 in December 2016. Its ingredients soon caused controversy in Valencia because the design included shrimp and peas, while Valencian traditionalists argued that an authentic paella valenciana should feature ingredients such as chicken, rabbit, green beans and garrofó.
Apple later changed the artwork to a more traditional Valencian-looking version, featuring chicken and beans. The question refers to the original design, not the current Apple artwork. Other platforms may still use different illustrations, so emoji appearances are not universal.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026