[Sca-cooks] A question sure to cause controversy

Audrey Bergeron-Morin audreybmorin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 10:10:42 PST 2009


>> We prefer some kind of variation on Head Cook, although we still hear
>> feastocrat once in a while. In French, we get the festocrate bit as
>> well, but we now tend to use Maître Queux.
>
> That expression always makes me smile.  It just means 'chef' but it looks
> like Master of the Tails.  One might call my happy, wag-tail dog [canine
> morale officer Tegan] le
>
> Maître Queux agitants!  <sourire>

Hm, that's a very... shall we say... conservative? interpretation...
Usually, people see the association with the male member, not the
dog... though in both interpretation it would be written "queue", not
"queux"!


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