Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] How the turkey got its name ...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Phlip:
>Fwded this along to Gene Anderson, and here's his comments:

>  > And, for
>  > that matter, horseradish isn't a radish and has nothing to do with
>>  horses.

No, but it's close enough to a radish in flavor and texture for 
English-speakers to use the term "horse" in connection with it, as in 
horse chestnuts, horse mushrooms, horse mackerel (actually some kinda 
amberjack, I think), etc., all denoting large, coarse-textured items, 
and not necessarily intended for human consumption. There's an 
explainable trend at work here, such as it is.

>   Ambrose Bierce in the Devil's Dictionary finishes up a similar
>>  list with the observation that "toad in the hole does not include a toad,
>>  and riz de veau a la financiere is not the head of a calf prepared
>>  according to the recipe of a she-banker."

That would be tete de veau a la financiere. Ris (not riz, which is 
rice) de veau are sweetbreads. I assumed that the gender has to agree 
with the main noun, no?

Adamantius


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brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat 
brioche."
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

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