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Default word repetitions that name food
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> Since almost all Americans have come from somewhere else, we tend to
> use a foreign word along with the English word for something when
> trying to transform the ordinary into something special. A famous one
> is a recipe we call Shrimp scampi and I just read a blogger call plain
> white/button mushrooms from the grocery store Champignon Mushrooms.
> Can you think of any other examples? I'm blanking, but I know there
> are more.

" au jus gravy" and "served with au jus" :-)


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