Nancy Young wrote:
> ... what is a souffle?

> Here's where it got strange, we ordered a souffle with
> Grand Marnier caramel sauce. Sounded good to me.
>
> Okay, a mold of frozen solid ice cream is *not* a souffle,
> unless it's been too long since I had one. Didn't bother
> asking the bartender if that was the right dessert, I wasn't
> all that hungry anyway, but geez. Maybe I'm wrong.
> Out of the souffle loop, like that.


There are many recipes for souffle. You might like souffle, or you
might not. The souffle might be made well, and it might not. It might
come to the table in a glory of height, or it might have deflated, but
the definition of souffle always involves air whipped into egg whites
which expand in the oven. I know that words change meaning over time,
but that doesn't mean they have no definition at all. When an
advertiser calls one item (ice cream) something else (souffle) for the
purpose of deceiving the customer, that's still lying, not the meanings
of words evolving over time.


Did you call the "error" to the attention of the waiter so he could
bring you what you ordered, refund your money and apologize? I suspect
you were enjoying the play so much that you didn't bother, but I think
it is important to do so. When enough people complain, the management
will get the idea that ice cream is not souffle and stop increasing
their sales by misrepresenting the menu.


I there's a part of the country where people routinely do call ice cream
souffle, it is news to me, and I'm glad to be corrected.


--Lia