[Sca-cooks] An Evil Thought- Excercise in Intelligence

[kattratt]

I don't believe you people...
I love you GUYS!!!!!!
Only on this list can we dissect the Big Mac!!!!!!!!!

And I quote
2 All Beef Pattie, Special Sauce, Lettuce, cheese, pickles onion, all on
Sesame Seed Bun.

Nichola

Michael Gunter wrote:

>> Two all-meat patties, special sauce, onion, pickle, lettuce, and tomato
>> (vegetable? translator's query), on a sesame seed bun....
>>
>>
>> Phlip
>
>
> I know you want to go far afield (I like the "two all-beet" patties
> thing).
> But
> You could almost translate this to be not too different with a period
> mindset.
>
> 2 all beef patties. - Grilled collops of beef.
> Special Sauce. - I would probably use a garlic pepper sauce or a sauce
> camelyne.
> Lettuce - A fairly common green.
> Cheese - Any number of cheeses could be added.
> Pickles - Pickles were common but it's unfortunate that it doesn't say
> what
> kind of
> pickle. You could think that this were an instruction instead of an
> ingredient.
>
> So you take collops of beef, in a Special Sauce (possibly Lord's
> Salt), with
> lettuce.
>
> Or you could read it to say that you take collops of beef and lettuce
> with
> pickled
> onions. In fact, upon re-reading the recipe it's obvious that is what
> it is
> saying.
>
> Sesame Seed Bun. - Hmm..nothing really in the corpus about this. But I
> would
> estimate
> that it is Arabic in origin. I remember reading something about sesame
> seeds
> ground
> up with flour and oil and baked on a flat stone. Sounds tasty.
>
> So, I think the final effort isn't a "sandwich" whatever that is, but the
> description of a
> workman's meal. Possibly Arabic in origin.
>
> On a plate you have:
>
> 2 collops of beef, probably grilled. Topped with "Special Sauce"
> documentation unknown.
> Possibly named like the Sauces Royalle or Lord's Salt. Since this is
> obviously Arabic in
> origin I would suggest something like murri.
>
> Basically two slices of beef grilled with murri sprinkled over.
> Lettuce to ease digestion. I'd wrap it around pickled onions as
> presentation.
> A slice of goat's or sheep's cheese.
> The "on" a sesame seed bun is curious. This could be a mistranslation.
> Or it
> could be saying that the whole is added to the dough and baked as
> almost a
> pizza-like substance. I've seen similar dishes with a paste of meat used
> this way.
>
> Or it could just be a mistranslation of "anon" meaning the bun was eaten
> afterwards.
> In this case I would make the sesame bun with a bit of honey or perhaps a
> regular
> flour roll filled with a honey/sesame mixture to serve as a sweet
> dessert.
>
> Therefore "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickled
> onions, anon,
> a sesame seed bun" is a basic workingman's meal of meat, salad, cheese
> and
> dessert.
>
> Why all the controversy?
>
> Gunthar
>
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