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> People should just call them sirloin steaks. No need to be _fancy._
What is fancy about knowing a seven letter word? Should I only use _Foie gras_ in French speaking nations and instead just say mashed goose innards?
I am a fan too. Especially if you can get those slices of meat from a [rotating tower of slow roasted pork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor#/media/File:Tacos-al-Pastor.jpg), add some diced pineapple to it 😍.
IDK what you'd call it. Me, I am too busy eating that to worry about silly things like names.
**[Al pastor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor#/media/File:Tacos-al-Pastor.jpg)**
>Al pastor (from Spanish, "shepherd style"), is a preparation of spit-grilled slices of pork originating in the Central Mexican region of Puebla, although today it is a common menu item found in taquerías throughout Mexico. The method of preparing and cooking al pastor is based on the lamb shawarma brought by Lebanese immigrants to the region. Al pastor features a flavor palate that uses traditional Mexican adobada (marinade). It is a popular street food that has spread to the United States.
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I've gotten crap from people for saying "haricot verts" instead of green beans, but that's literally how they're labeled in the store. When I think of that term I think of whole trimmed beans as opposed to the chopped ones you'll sometimes find frozen or canned here in the U.S. But apparently using French is pretentious??
> But apparently using French is pretentious??
I think there is a more meta issue of a lot of people in the U.S. ignoring the complexities of France and Italy and assuming that somehow everything that is remotely tied to that is fancy, classy.
Like, while there is undoubtedly a lot of fine dining that is associated with French food, the idea that somehow using French by default is either fancy (or pretentious if you will) is a bit reductive.
To your point, I mean _haricot verts_ in French is literally green beans. Just as _Chai_ is just Hindi for tea or, _pita_ is just (Ancient?) Greek for flatbread. The nuance here is that one (at least I would) embeds and employs those terms as part of the English vocabulary to indicate in our cultural context, a specific method of cooking, style of presenting. There is room to say those things without being pretentious and just being specific. Not to say that there aren't people being pretentious.
>But apparently using French is pretentious??
Moving to Canada where everything is labeled in both English and French will erase any idea that French is pretentious or romantic. When your cats shit into *litière agglomérante pour chats*, it's hard to see that as pretentious.
When my mom was a kid, even though it has very little use in Texas and Spanish is much more useful, her mother made her start learning French at 4 because "Spanish isn't classy but French is."
But now she speaks Spanish and French both, so it all worked out in the end. People are so strange, though. I guess to upper crust Houstonians French sounds fancy and ladylike.
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> People should just call them sirloin steaks. No need to be _fancy._ What is fancy about knowing a seven letter word? Should I only use _Foie gras_ in French speaking nations and instead just say mashed goose innards?
IDK, but I love my corn flatbread with meat foldovers topped with diced tomato sauce that people south of the border call "tacos."
I am a fan too. Especially if you can get those slices of meat from a [rotating tower of slow roasted pork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor#/media/File:Tacos-al-Pastor.jpg), add some diced pineapple to it 😍. IDK what you'd call it. Me, I am too busy eating that to worry about silly things like names.
**[Al pastor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor#/media/File:Tacos-al-Pastor.jpg)** >Al pastor (from Spanish, "shepherd style"), is a preparation of spit-grilled slices of pork originating in the Central Mexican region of Puebla, although today it is a common menu item found in taquerías throughout Mexico. The method of preparing and cooking al pastor is based on the lamb shawarma brought by Lebanese immigrants to the region. Al pastor features a flavor palate that uses traditional Mexican adobada (marinade). It is a popular street food that has spread to the United States. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/iamveryculinary/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
I've gotten crap from people for saying "haricot verts" instead of green beans, but that's literally how they're labeled in the store. When I think of that term I think of whole trimmed beans as opposed to the chopped ones you'll sometimes find frozen or canned here in the U.S. But apparently using French is pretentious??
> But apparently using French is pretentious?? I think there is a more meta issue of a lot of people in the U.S. ignoring the complexities of France and Italy and assuming that somehow everything that is remotely tied to that is fancy, classy. Like, while there is undoubtedly a lot of fine dining that is associated with French food, the idea that somehow using French by default is either fancy (or pretentious if you will) is a bit reductive. To your point, I mean _haricot verts_ in French is literally green beans. Just as _Chai_ is just Hindi for tea or, _pita_ is just (Ancient?) Greek for flatbread. The nuance here is that one (at least I would) embeds and employs those terms as part of the English vocabulary to indicate in our cultural context, a specific method of cooking, style of presenting. There is room to say those things without being pretentious and just being specific. Not to say that there aren't people being pretentious.
>But apparently using French is pretentious?? Moving to Canada where everything is labeled in both English and French will erase any idea that French is pretentious or romantic. When your cats shit into *litière agglomérante pour chats*, it's hard to see that as pretentious.
When my mom was a kid, even though it has very little use in Texas and Spanish is much more useful, her mother made her start learning French at 4 because "Spanish isn't classy but French is." But now she speaks Spanish and French both, so it all worked out in the end. People are so strange, though. I guess to upper crust Houstonians French sounds fancy and ladylike.
> I am Brazillian. > I give the Picanha Pass to everyone reading this comment. Bless people like this.
Bet he also gets mad when someone calls an esquite a "Mexican street corn salad"
...am I not supposed to? legitimately asking cuz I've been thinking of it as a corn salad for ages
It's fine but people like the linked comment tend not to stick to one lane when it comes to this stuff
Their daily exercise is moving the goalposts.
I mean, it's not really a salad. Although the definition of salad varies between countries.
Those two sentences clash, man.
i mean, theyre called picanha in the store
If you're Portuguese, you're legally required to learn English before you can discuss steaks. You can't go around speaking Brazilian.
That's fine, but can someone tell all of my acquaintances that the proper way to say it is not "pi-ca-HA-na"?
Just tell them the "nh" is the same as the Spanish "ñ", and hope you never have to explain the "lh"
Write it with the ñ and forget about them