"gtr" > wrote in message news:2013122710111620202-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2013-12-26 22:13:12 +0000, sf said:
>
>> 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.
>
> The "soup du jour of the day" has always been my favorite.

lol I've never come across that one

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