"Michael "Dog3"" > wrote in message
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> "James Silverton" > news:m8yrk.412$482.377
> @trnddc06: in rec.food.cooking
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>> TFM® wrote on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:42:56 -0400:
>>
>>
>>> "Steve Pope" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> notbob > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What in the world is a chicken fajita salad? First, a
>>>>> fajita is beef, second, it's not a salad.
>>>>
>>>> I think officially, fajitas refers to large slices of
>>>> pepper/onion.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>
>>> You would be incorrect. Fajitas are a cut of meat. Beef to
>>> be exact.
>>
>>> "Chicken fajitas" (misnomer) would be more appropriately named
>>> chicken tacos.
>>
>> However, you mustn't eat out much if you have not seen both "chicken
>> fajitas" and "shrimp fajitas"!
>
> If fajitas refer to a cut of meat how can other meats be considered
> authentic fajitas? If fajita specifically refers to beef, then chicken
> or shrimp in flour tortillas must refer to something else. I can't find
> anything that says "fajita" is a cooking method. It's kind of like the
> martini discussion I got sucked into a year or 2 ago. To the purists if
> a martini is not made with gin, it's not a martini.
>
> Michael <- stirring, not shaking
>
>
>

By definition, a martini is made with gin. Just because someone calls some
sissy vodka drink a martini, it's not necessarily true.

You can put cats in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits, does it?


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