On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 1:04:00 PM UTC-8, Chatty Cathy wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:53:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
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> > I always thought hor d'oeuvres was was almost interchangeable with
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> > canapes, mostly finger foods to nibble on with drinks.... before you sit
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> I've always thought of hors d'oeuvre as being 'finger foods' too - and not
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> really 'sit-down' food (as I've said in a couple of other posts in this
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> thread... and when I typed in 'Appetizer' on a wiki search, it redirected
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> me to 'Hors d'oeuvre'. Maybe the authors of the article are confused too?
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetizer
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> and Julie provided another link:
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> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Difference..._and_appetizer
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> The only difference is what country you are in. They are the same thing,
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> but it's commonly called a starter in strongly British or formerly British
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> things really confusing, an appetizer is called an "entree" in New
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> Zealand, and the main course is called a "main". (But in the USA, the word
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> Here, have a entree, um, I mean an hors d'oeuvre, no make that an
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> Cheers
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> Chatty Cathy


And now they've added tapas to the mix, using the term incorrectly. This is on Jill's most recent post re; them.

Julie P