When did "entrée" become main in US?
When did "entrée" become main in US?
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When did "entrée" become main in US?
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Post #1 - November 26th, 2010, 11:53 amI've got a question that I bet some of you historians can answer. Up here in Québec, the starter course on menus is called "entrée", which seems fair enough, since, after all, the starter is how you enter a meal.
Which raises an etymological issue: when did the name for the starter course get attached to the main course on American menus? I mean, I know Americans are lousy at languages, but this mistake seems pretty glaring... Ideas anyone?
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Post #2 - November 26th, 2010, 12:50 pmWikipedia has some opinions on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entr%C3%A9e"Your swimming suit matches your eyes, you hold your nose before diving, loving you has made me bananas!"
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Post #3 - November 26th, 2010, 1:07 pmFun to know. I had guessed it was some sort of alteration in dining, but wasn't sure. In England and Australia, I had become accustomed to entrée being the first course, and just accepted the American misuse as the kind of corruption of language that turned pease into pea. Nice to have a slightly more precise history."All great change in America begins at the dinner table." Ronald Reagan
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