On Tue, 1 Sep 2026 09:13:40 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
<chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
>On 2026-09-01, Uncle Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:>On 1 Sep 2026 01:18:23 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell>
<leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>On 2026-08-31, Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
>They're not my favorite shellfish. I'd rather have lobster, shrimp,>
mussels, or oysters. I wouldn't order scallops in a restaurant.
Neither would I refuse them if a friend served them to me.
>
The first scallop dish I ever ate was Coquilles Saint-Jacques.
Another U.S. truncation of the complete name of a dish.
_Coquilles Saint-Jacques Gratinées_.
Now THAT makes sense.
>The acute accent gives us a dizzy spell.>
Youse could have called them Gratineed Scallops.
Fancy French restaurants in the 1950s or 1960s probably thought
it was more "on brand" to list the dish in French.
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Cindy Hamilton
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