At the table next to mine this AM:
Waitress: "I'll bring you some more Holiday sauce."
(TBGs ears perk up at this...)
Customer 1: "That will be lovely."
(Illiterate waitress leaves)
Customer 2: "What's she bringing?"
C1: "Holiday sauce. For my Eggs Benedict."
C2: "Oh. Ok."
Constant Readers will be proud of me; I did not head-smack either of the customers or the waitress...
I did throw up in my mouth a little, but no actual projectile vomiting occurred.
Question: How much violence should be allowable to visit upon people that butcher the English language?
TBG
8 comments:
Considering that English is a living language, no violence should be meted out upon those who misuse it.
Especially since the misuse in this case is messing up a French infiltration word.
Doubly so since it's a French word for a condiment that's only used here for eggs Benedict and asparagus.
Errr .. what Angus said.
Goodness no!
A correctly made sauce Hollandiase is a true delight!
On poached salmon. As a dipping sauce for artichokes...
Instead of the typical Steak Oscar, substitute large fresh Mayport shrimp atop a seared filet, drizzled with Hollandaise.
Any kind of potato dish especially scalloped 'taters...
I've only had one bad experience with it: my ex-wife once used it as an element in a lasagna... It was one of the many items enumerated in our dissolution of marriage paperwork.
I will grant you that we are victims of a froggy illegal immigration with regard to the name, so let's give it the old 'Freedom Fries' treatment...
"Super good yellow tasty sauce" perhaps?
I donno. I'm kinda dumb. But isn't eggs Benedict actually eggs Benedict BECAUSE of the Hollandiase sauce? I mean, with it, isn't it just poached eggs?!?!?!
That should say, WITHOUT IT. I am an idiot.
Call it holly sauce, like we shortened mayonnaise to mayo.
Plus, when can I come over for dinner?
Ye. Gods. They live, breathe, and breed... sigh
You can be rest assured that I am not breeding.
Plus I think I am only living and breathing because it's illegal to shoot me.
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