SC - Spices and sensitive palates
Mike C. Baker
kihe at rocketmail.com
Tue Sep 30 14:12:23 PDT 1997
- ---"Peters, Rise J." <PETERSR at spiegel.becltd.com> wrote:
> <<ANYTHING served with a quantity of spicing exceeding
> the normal modern palate is best served with accompanying
> admonitions.>>
> Agreed. But...
> <<Server: "My lords and ladies, for some palates the
> cook may have been a little heavy-handed with the
> ginger in this dish.">>
> Can we come up with an alternative phrasing that makes
> clear that it wasn't the cook making a mistake, but
> simply a correctly-prepared dish that some
> may find surprising? "Good gentles, this dish,
> prepared according to a recipe handed down to the
> cook by his grandmother, includes enough ginger to
> wake the dead." Or something of that sort.<g>
Amended phraseology noted and commended.
(Actually, my example text is a close paraphrase
of something I was once actually told at a feast...)
I further note that my version specified "for some
palates", not that an error had occurred.
> In either case, folk may grouse that they don't
> like ginger, but there's a difference between knowing
> that you don't like a particular dish that was
> fixed correctly, and thinking that the dish was
> ruined because the cook erred.
Perfectly agreed.
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