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Cocktail Ramblings (5 of a series)
Feb. 10th, 2024 07:07 pm"so ... you know words."
"I know some words."
"I've been meaning to ask: why is 'poach' the cooking technique the same words as --"
"-- as 'poach' the illicit hunting thing? I don't know. I said I know some words, but not all of them."
"ok, I will ask the internets ... ohhhh, so to 'poach' some game illicitly is from the French and is originally a German word for "to poke" but the simmering thing is also from the French 'poche' or a pocket. Like you nestle an egg yolk in a pocket of barely set white. But it gets collapsed into 'poach' because--"
"-- the Norman conquest! The same reason why --"
" -- the same reason why we use French for all of our food words!"
"well not all of our food words. Just the fancy ones of nobility. So cow meat becomes beef because 'boeuf' or pigs become 'pork'."
"and fancy people get their deer hunted illicitly and do fussy things with eggs."
This is, like, every Saturday evening for us. Because WE ARE NERDS.
"I know some words."
"I've been meaning to ask: why is 'poach' the cooking technique the same words as --"
"-- as 'poach' the illicit hunting thing? I don't know. I said I know some words, but not all of them."
"ok, I will ask the internets ... ohhhh, so to 'poach' some game illicitly is from the French and is originally a German word for "to poke" but the simmering thing is also from the French 'poche' or a pocket. Like you nestle an egg yolk in a pocket of barely set white. But it gets collapsed into 'poach' because--"
"-- the Norman conquest! The same reason why --"
" -- the same reason why we use French for all of our food words!"
"well not all of our food words. Just the fancy ones of nobility. So cow meat becomes beef because 'boeuf' or pigs become 'pork'."
"and fancy people get their deer hunted illicitly and do fussy things with eggs."
This is, like, every Saturday evening for us. Because WE ARE NERDS.
