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[quote=Anonymous]Ha! This reminds me of an episode of Below Deck where Chef Ben (British) and Chief Stew Hannah (Australian) clashed over the word entree.

Hannah was using entree for appetizer with the American guests and got them all confused about the size/number of courses since entree means main meal in the US. The guests had eaten a late lunch and she asked if they'd be ok with only having "entrees and dessert at dinner" and they were like yep, sounds good. So Chef Ben prepared an appetizer (entree) and dessert. Once the guests were served the entree and Hannah announced she was brining dessert, the guests were like "wait, where's our entree?" And Hannah explained they'd just eaten their entrees and it created a whole "who's on first?" scenario. "That was your entree" "it was so tiny!" "yes, because it was a entree" "we're still hungry!" "Earlier you said you'd be fine with an entree and dessert only" "that was like appetizer size" and then it clicked that OH entree means main course in the US. Chef Ben had to scramble and fix more food and yelled at Hannah to never use the word entree again with any guests. Only use starters, main, and dessert for course names.  [/quote]

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