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.

Um, of course. Why I mentioned it.

> Quite why a cream puff is called chou is another story
> of course

It's called that because some French baker with too much imagination
said it looked like a cabbage coming out of the oven.

Pastorio