"Bob (this one)" wrote:
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> Arri London wrote:
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> > "Bob (this one)" wrote:
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> >>zuuum wrote:
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> >>>Odd food origins welcome -
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> >>>The "Caesar" salad, uses Romaine lettuce, was born in a Tijuana restaurant.
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> >>Named after Italian Caesar Cardini who invented it. Julia Child used
> >>to eat at his restaurant and knew him when she was young. Spoke warmly
> >>about him.
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> >>>Pork "butt" is actually the shoulder of a pig.
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> >>"Butt" used to just mean "end." So it's the end of the forequarter.
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> >>And how about "pate a chou" that has nothing to do with cabbage...
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> >>Pastorio
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> > True, but OTOH chou is also a cream puff. So the pate a chou is paste
> > for cream puffs.
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> Um, of course. Why I mentioned it.

Other people might not have known that, as you didn't mention what it is
for.
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> > Quite why a cream puff is called chou is another story
> > of course
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> It's called that because some French baker with too much imagination
> said it looked like a cabbage coming out of the oven.
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> Pastorio

If that is true, then there is a cabbage connection after all But I
think it comes from an old dialect word that now has the same spelling
as chou for cabbage.