Yeah, well maybe the French could try to protect the name "omelette" like
they have "champagne", "burgundy", etc. Doesn't stop anyone else making the
same dish just that they can't call it "omelette".
Good luck to them !
...Wayne
>
> The French spend centuries perfecting a simple and elegant dish. It has
few
> components and requires little skill, just basic technique and care. But
people
> can't resist the urge to mess it up - cooking rubbery egg pancakes,
loading
> them up with inappropriate 'fillings', overcooking, upscaling the
ingredients
> inappropriately - and then claiming that they've somehow 'improved' it.
And
> worse still, actually believing that it is better.
> Now, 'so what' you may respond - why can't I ruin it to my own taste?
> Because now we have a vast majority who have no idea what it really is and
> you can't order one anywhere without preparing yourself to send it back
> with the complaint that "this is not an omelette".
> "It's how we do an omelette, Sir."
> "And you're wrong so this is how I do an exit."
>
> Andrew Fildes (who is very fond of a tortilla or a frittata but.)
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.soultheft.com
>
> Author/Publisher:
> The SLR Compendium:
> revised edition -
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> The TLR Compendium
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>
>
>
> On 19/01/2014, at 11:47 PM, David Thatcher wrote:
>
> > Andrew,
> >
> > OK then, it's a new dish. I offer my creation to the world under the gnu
> > free licence model... ;)
> >
> > davidt
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 07:47:49AM +1100, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> >> Hell they are. Slippery slope and most of you are at the bottom
already.
> >> Not being able to spell it is not an argument!
> >> Andrew Fildes
> >> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> www.soultheft.com
> >
> >
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