[Sca-cooks] Regional dishes... OOP

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sat Sep 21 17:45:11 PDT 2002


Also sprach Gorgeous Muiredach:
>>  > Isn't goulash a hungarian word though?
>>
>>No, dear, you don't understand. It's a funny furrin word, that was handy to
>>describe a cheap meal ;-)
>
>I do understand.  My point is just that.  It went from being a hungarian
>word/dish.  It got translated into something else entirely.
>
>I was expecting the hungarian dish.  I got the translation.

Of course, you can go to Vienna and get non-Hungarian goulash, too (a
paprika soup with sausage and potato, I think), so it isn't just an
Ugly American thing. Interestingly, it seems that what is most often
referred to as Hungarian Goulash outside of Hungary is porkolt in
Hungary... .

Adamantius
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