On 10/10/2012 10:37 PM, pavane wrote:
> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "janice" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I am in the UK and nowadays see many TV chefs and newspaper writers use
>>> the
>>> term "to blitz" to mean to use a blender for a short period of time.
>>>
>>> What's wrong with "use the blender" or even "blend" instead of "blitz"?
>>>
>>> Presumably the verb "to blitz" has come from American English but why is
>>> it
>>> so widespread when all it doesis replace a perfectly good existing word?
>>
>> I'm in the US and I've never heard it.
>
> Ask your husband. Every US Marine has used Blitz Cloth
> to clean brass fittings and to look good. Probably even
> Army people have done so. A Blitz Cloth is something
> that anyone in the American Military (save possibly a Navy
> cook or so...) has had intimate and finger-darkening
> experience with. It is part of our culture.
> http://www.blitzinc.com/catalog/cleaning-cloths-kits
> " The Original Blitz Cloth was developed in 1912 for the
> polishing of brass in United States Military "
> ... Read and revel in our history.

I never heard the term blitz used to mean pulse in the blender.

However, am I mistaken or is blitz not a German word for lightning?

nancy