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    I particularly enjoyed a friend's response to the question, "Is that to eat here or take-away?" His reply was that he was hoping to do both. Pete

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    Hi Pete
    you shouldn't be surprised ...

    the fast food counter jockeys only know how they have been trained to pronounce what is printed on the outside of the box they take the "fill-ays" from.
    If their training is to pronounce "fish fillet" as "fish fill-ay" that is what they will do.

    Living most of the year in Canada I get odd looks a lot of the time.
    Ian, don't get me wrong, I had no objection to her pronunciation which was, after all, correct in that the word is originally French. My objection was that she felt the need to correct my accepted Anglicised usage for something that couldn't have been mistaken for anything else on the menu. Besides, there's a certain pretentiousness about such a name being given to a piece of junk food. What next, I wonder? Slapping an uncooked meat pattie in a bun and calling it a "Steak Tartare Burger" ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodhutt View Post
    What next, I wonder? Slapping an uncooked meat pattie in a bun and calling it a "Steak Tartare Burger" ?
    As long as it isn't frozen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodhutt View Post
    What next, I wonder? Slapping an uncooked meat pattie in a bun and calling it a "Steak Tartare Burger" ?
    as long as it's walked quickly past a just snuffed out candle it would qualify as "Steak Tartare"
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    As long as it isn't frozen.

    Rich, I just hope like heck I haven't given Macca's an idea for their next assault on the culinary art. Pete

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    Quote Originally Posted by bueller View Post
    Makes you wonder about people who label entire generations based on absurd stereotypes.
    I've based my answer on the neanderthals that roam the streets here in this town!!!
    To grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

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    Frozen Tartare is uncomfortable....

    Don't even start on the pronunciation of Jaguar or Porsche.......
    I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
    We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
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    or even Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation of Bathurst
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    Ray

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    Quote Originally Posted by rwbuild View Post
    or even Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation of Bathurst
    OMG I'd blocked that from my memory...pain!
    I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
    We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
    Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?

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