Adventures in cooking, part 1

[giza]

tailen laughs!
giza: What's so funny?
tailen: This chicken is called 'Perdue'?
giza: Yeah, it's a popular brand over here.
tailen: In French, 'PEAR-DUE' means lost!
giza: That old man in the commercials is gonna be pissed...

Comments

lost?

[sashatigress.livejournal.com]

LOL

[swift-fox.livejournal.com]

That old man in the commercials is dead. That's why you don't see him in the commercials anymore.

Swifty

Pedantically speaking...

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

Well, the French is perdu, but same difference.

Completely tangential point: What is called French Toast in the U.S. is known as pain perdu ("lost bread") in France. Depending on which source you believe, the name comes from:
- Reviving bread "lost" to staleness (eh, boring)
- The dish is traditionally served on "Lost Monday," the first Monday following Epiphany. The day commemorates the fact that the Magi would not tell Herod the location of Christ (he was "lost")
- More pragmatically, civil servants didn't work on that Monday and thus those were wages "lost"

Re: Pedantically speaking...

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

Ooo, thanks for the language geekery!

Frank Perdue is completely unknown on the West Coast, BTW. But you East Coast folks don't know Rocky the Range Chicken. :)

Hey, "Franc Perdu" = "Lost money"!!!

Re: Pedantically speaking...

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Perdue would be the feminine form, wouldn't it?

[irbisgreif.livejournal.com]

Rather humerous...

[thraxarious.livejournal.com]

Not since trying to Market the Chevy NoVa to the spanish speaking community has there been as fun an economic blunder as this.

[tchall.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's what all the chickens I find are, lost. It's just a pure coincidence that they all happen to be lost near a hen house. It's just one of those mysteries of nature. ;)