My favorite seasoning (at least for now)

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-04-2009, 03:32 AM

Black pepper, absolutely coating the bitemark in a hamburger. Perhaps a sprinkle of salt also, but I've developed a real taste for heavily peppered hamburgers. I do the same with French dips. (Warm shaved-beef long sandwiches served au jus, if the name differs outside the US.)

monster · 11-07-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

(Warm shaved-beef long sandwiches served au jus, if the name differs outside the US.)

...and now you need to translate au jus.....

but nice try

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-18-2009, 10:54 PM

Monster, WTF? Are you indeed, truly that innocent of French?

Well... it can happen. I ain't got that much German...

[puts on lecturer jacket w/suède elbow patches, fiddles w/official Flaming Carrot bubble pipe]

French has this sort of all-purpose article, "à" which can mean anything from "to, at, with, for" or "in the style of." Damn useful when you can't think what to say next, but are sure it might be one of those. Like Spanish's del, "au" is a combo of the article and "the." It substitutes for à+le for French masculine nouns, so we get to "au jus" meaning "with juice."

"Au jus" is not a fucking noun! Do not use "with!" Served au jus is the proper terminology, menu writers.

And à la means "in the style or manner of." À la mode just means it's in style; it doesn't actually mention ice cream on your pie. I'd like to find out how the phrase came about sometime.

11-04-2009, 03:32 AM	#1
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Black pepper, absolutely coating the bitemark in a hamburger. Perhaps a sprinkle of salt also, but I've developed a real taste for heavily peppered hamburgers. I do the same with French dips. (Warm shaved-beef long sandwiches served au jus, if the name differs outside the US.) __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

11-18-2009, 10:54 PM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Monster, WTF? Are you indeed, truly that innocent of French? Well... it can happen. I ain't got that much German... [puts on lecturer jacket w/suède elbow patches, fiddles w/official Flaming Carrot bubble pipe] French has this sort of all-purpose article, "à" which can mean anything from "to, at, with, for" or "in the style of." Damn useful when you can't think what to say next, but are sure it might be one of those. Like Spanish's del, "au" is a combo of the article and "the." It substitutes for à+le for French masculine nouns, so we get to "au jus" meaning "with juice." "Au jus" is not a fucking noun! Do not use "with!" Served au jus is the proper terminology, menu writers. And à la means "in the style or manner of." À la mode just means it's in style; it doesn't actually mention ice cream on your pie. I'd like to find out how the phrase came about sometime. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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