why do american restaurants call main dishes "entrées"?

[Anonymous]

Ignorance? Lack of intelligence? I just cannot understand the perversion of calling a main dish for dinner on the menu an "entree". Do better America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignorance? Lack of intelligence? I just cannot understand the perversion of calling a main dish for dinner on the menu an "entree". Do better America.

ok

[Anonymous]

https://frenchly.us/americans-call-main-course-entree/

Google. Do better.

[Anonymous]

There are many borrowed phrases in language usage. Why do the French use "le pullover" or "le weekend?"

[Anonymous]

You've never heard of lost in translation, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://frenchly.us/americans-call-main-course-entree/

Google. Do better.

French person here. Very stupid article. Entrée in French has always been used correctly to designate a dish that precedes the main dish, whether it's course number 1 or 3 or whatever. Entrée in English was used correctly at first when there were many courses, but incorrectly later when that number was reduced, because chefs didn't care or understand what it was supposed to designate. They could just as easily have switched to calling appetizers (American) or starters (British) the "entrées".

[Anonymous]

What’s with the anti-American food poster today. This is the second thread they’ve started.

[Anonymous]

We don't speak French. We speak English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't speak French. We speak English.

And yet you are speaking french when you use those words

[Anonymous]

Americans are uncultured swine who steal whatever they feel like and appropriate it, usually incorrectly.

That's about all.

[Anonymous]

I like that someone's complaining about a linguistic evolution that occurred well before people on the forum were born.

Try word for word translating a lot of things and they don't make sense, that is how language works. Meanings evolve over time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s with the anti-American food poster today. This is the second thread they’ve started.

If this is the fake Bolognese poster, Americans do serve pasta as a main dish, while traditionally, it's primo, not secondo. So while the Bolognese being described is clearly just red sauce with meat in it, it actually could be correctly described as an entree by this poster.

[Anonymous]

Funny thing—if not for the U.S., the French might be calling their ‘plat principal’ a Hauptgericht. You’re welcome.

[Anonymous]

its been 75 years since you won that war... you have lost all 5 wars you fought after that so get over yourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s with the anti-American food poster today. This is the second thread they’ve started.

If this is the fake Bolognese poster, Americans do serve pasta as a main dish, while traditionally, it's primo, not secondo. So while the Bolognese being described is clearly just red sauce with meat in it, it actually could be correctly described as an entree by this poster.

I mean the reality is we also just don't commonly sit down for multicourse dinners. It's not Downton Abbey. So the words used to describe such meals and the rules about them fell out of fashion.

Going to those fancy restaurants where you're supposed to order a pasta and then a meat dish, it's just too much food. Maybe the portions are way up (probably this is true) but it's just not how people rat anymore.