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[Anonymous No.8170112]

Why do Americans (and maybe canadians?) call the main dish of a meal the "entree"?

[Anonymous No.8170122]

Americans have a hard on for using French words and pronunciation, and they manage to do it wrong most of the time.

The pronunciation of fillet makes me so angry. You speak English, not French, use the English word.

[Anonymous No.8170134]

>>8170112
I hear it more as a name of a meat dish, and a lot of classic north american dishes are centered around the meat.

[Anonymous No.8170146]

>>8170122
And the rest of the world has a hard on for us apparently

[Anonymous No.8170160]

>>8170134
could you elaborate?

[Anonymous No.8170161]

>>8170122
How does someone say "entree" wrong?

[Anonymous No.8170167]

>>8170112
Much like how one would find trash in Shakespeare, that couch is an older term than sofa, and other common whining over Americanisms; the US usage of entrée is not incorrect but is actually an older use of the term.

[Anonymous No.8170169]

>>8170122
>You speak English, not French, use the English word.

We're not the faggots that call eggplants "aubergines".

[Anonymous No.8170184]

>>8170122
Calling a filet a "fill-et" sounds so fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.8170189]

>>8170184
fil-lay sounds like a middle-class affectation tbqh

[Anonymous No.8170221]

>>8170189
say my name

[Anonymous No.8170228]

>>8170112
French envy. We've never recovered from the fact that like the aussies, we were founded by literal scumbags.

[Anonymous No.8170229]

>>8170221
GMO garbage

[Anonymous No.8170230]

>>8170221

[Anonymous No.8170235]

>>8170221
>say my name
feelet-o'fish
the deluxe one was sooo good ffs

[Anonymous No.8170237]

>>8170167
my gramma calls a sofa the chesterfield

[Anonymous No.8170243]

>why?
1066

[Anonymous No.8170250]

>>8170160
Our family only called the main meat dish an entree. Apparently entree used to refer to a hearty meat dish in the middle ages. So when the rest of the world changed the meaning of the word, us new world plebs kept the old meaning.
> pri.org/stories/2014-09-22/sure-you-are-what-you-eatbut-youre-also-how-you-translate-menu
I think if you have a full meal (5+ dishes) the entree would most likely be a meat dish. I'd think vegetables and (if present) soup would be your appetizer, fish would come next, your entree (say duck or lamb) is 3rd, then your main dish.

The other thing is that people in my area never call a non-meat based dish an entree. Things like pasta, a salad, soup, even something like Shepard's pie would just be called "the main dish", regardless if it had meat in it or not. If it wasn't a slab of meat, mainly mammal or poultry, it wasn't an entree. But this may just of been our community.

[Anonymous No.8170257]

>>8170237
Does she do this with ALL sofas? Not all sofas are chesterfields, but all chesterfields are sofas.

[Anonymous No.8170277]

>>8170112
en- 2. , a prefix meaning “within, in,” occurring in loanwords from Greek: energy; enthusiasm.

Then tree, something like 'tray' or 'tri' - take it from there

[Anonymous No.8170312]

>>8170243
Literally the answer to any questions related to the English language. Remember this number.

[Anonymous No.8170321]

>Old Worlders complain about the New World accent and lack of dialects/accents
>Old Worlders complain when things are said differently or have different meanings

[Anonymous No.8170323]

>>8170122
Still butthurt about the revolution I see

[Anonymous No.8170330]

>>8170243
>>8170312
not really since the french use the term differently. as do the english for that matter

[Anonymous No.8170425]

>>8170122
>The pronunciation of fillet makes me so angry
How do you think Americans pronounce that word?

[Anonymous No.8170533]

>>8170221
The Mcfish

[Anonymous No.8170615]

Stores and restaurants do that for pricing, but I've never heard a regular person call any thing an entree.