[Sca-cooks] Re:tricky food names

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Devra at aol.com:
>In a message dated 4/15/2005 11:36:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:
>
>>  shrimp with lobster sauce containing no lobster...
>>
>Ah, but there I think you have fallen to a different food convention. Years
>ago, I was told that the 'lobster sauce' was 'sauce suitable to use on
>lobster', rather than 'sauce with lobster'.  Um...Chinese convention?
>      Devra

Well, not so much fallen on my part as having to acknowledge a very 
common interpretation. This is probably due to the fact that other 
cuisines have "lobster sauce" that does contain lobster.

Adamantius
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