Margaret Suran wrote:
>
> Julia Altshuler wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Nancy, Perhaps you will go down in history as the first person to eat
> (or not to eat) a FROZEN SOUFFLÉ.

There are plenty of recipes on the web for "frozen souffle".
It is not a new thing. Over the years the term souffle has
expanded to include cold and frozen souffles. It's a perfectly
legitimate use.

Kate