why do american restaurants call main dishes "entrées"?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know. Maybe what we’ve done is adapt “entre”— which means between, to refer to the course between the appetizer and the dessert or cheese course, and use the more familiar sounding French word entrée because we’ve heard it before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

And yet you are speaking french when you use those words

Oh F off

Next you’re going to tell us we can’t have quesadillas.

"Knock it off Napoleon, make yourself a dang quesadilla!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poO2BsVGdIU

🤣🤣🤣

CASE A DILLA!

[Anonymous]

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

"Might?" Try definitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What breaks my heart is Trump deporting all the wrong immigrants.

I actually laughed out loud at this. Leave the hardworking migrants alone and revoke the legal status of (for example) officious d-bags who whine about linguistic evolutions that happened decades ago. Start with the French, and move from there.


An immigration policy we can all support!

[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.

Yes lotta things to think about for America, this should be right up there with stopping a few wars.

[Anonymous]

Americans are not cultural.

[Anonymous]

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

80 years now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If all of your home countries are so much better than the States, why are you having a discussion on this forum?

I have a lot of friends in the DC area who are citizens of another country and/or grew up in another country - none of them berate the US like the posters on dcum. (They do berate current US politics, as do I, a born and raised American)

[Anonymous]

Can I spin off a little here (I love the linguistics discussion)-

when I am eating at a french (or italian, etc) restaurant located in the US with multiple courses as being discussed here, I never know if it is fine to order just from the pasta course or whichever. Given portion sizes these days, I do not have a big enough appetite to get a salad course and a pasta course and a meat course, but feel like I am making a faux paux by ordering just the salad and pasta and saying please bring my pasta as the main course.

also, does your answer change if I am actually in france or italy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I spin off a little here (I love the linguistics discussion)-

when I am eating at a french (or italian, etc) restaurant located in the US with multiple courses as being discussed here, I never know if it is fine to order just from the pasta course or whichever. Given portion sizes these days, I do not have a big enough appetite to get a salad course and a pasta course and a meat course, but feel like I am making a faux paux by ordering just the salad and pasta and saying please bring my pasta as the main course.

also, does your answer change if I am actually in france or italy?

In the US you order exactly what you want. 'Merica. Sometimes I just like 2 appetizers or 1 app and dessert.
I have no idea what to do in Italy. I find it ridiculous to eat pasta and then a whole meat course. But I also am not a fast/eat nothing and then gorge type of person (you will find me on Thanksgiving threads stating this). I think in Italy you are expected to linger and I also hate that. I eat to live and can't really be bothered with a long meal with lots of courses. I have things to do. I feel like more and more people are this way now.

[Anonymous]

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

That's about all.

Why do you live here, then?