I order Harv's sometimes, too. They have the best onion rings of all the fast food places, and tons of toppings options for their burgs. They also have noticeably the best prices. I am definitely ordering some fast food tonight, this is making me hungry.
Amarillo has as many Braum's Ice Cream shops as we do mcdonalds. And Braum's doesnt have ice cream machines that break; they scoop real ice cream out of gallon buckets! Yumm!!
They have a range to saute the onions? That's usually the kicker with availability. Most fast food franchises only have a flat top, fryers, and some form of microwave.
Several of my local takeaways do 6oz burgers. But they don't call them 3/8 pounders... that would really blow the minds of the clientele.
Today I learned that filming for the fourth season of "The Handmaid's Tale" has come here to the Niagara Peninsula, Canada.
two countries divided by a single tongue (I don't know where louane stands being a canadian), to us brits those onions are being fried ... a grill is what you folks call a broiler i think, single heat source from above. what you call a grill we call a BBQ
Well, you've got your flat top grill, your charcoal grill, your gas grill, etc. Many commercial applications. To saute means to "cook in fat" in a pan on a range and manually tossing the ingredients. To "fry" implies complete submersion in a fryolator, but could be pan fried, which still involves submersion. BBQ for us usually means the outdoor grill or the broader family of foods that you would find in such a setting. But people will call things whatever. Most of the culinary world descends for the French, but the lexicon has been bastardized.
Grill means to use a grill, a single direction open flame device with direct contact between the food and a grate. You can put a saute pan on a grill (or any sufficient heat source), but you're not grilling if the food is in a pan.
Be thankful. In Japanese, "yaki" means to grill and to sauté. And sometimes to deep fry. And also sometimes to roast.
OK ... now that gives me two weird-but-wonderful mental pictures: 1. A new fast-food place opens, offering 4-pounder, 6-pounder, 12-pounder, 18-pounder, 24-pounder and 32-pounder burgers. (The last one could probably feed a battalion). A customer pulls up. They ask him: "You want the 24-pounder or the large?" "Well, shit. How big is that large?" "You wanna get all the neighbours 'round ... we'll start making it last week." Or, even more implausibly ... 2. The British Navy does a tour of duty, as in the bygone days of yore (read: Empire) ... but the cannons are stuffed with burgers, each according to the weight of projectile being fired (e.g. a 1-pound burger in a 1-pounder cannon, etc.) They sail 'round the places where people are suffering from famine. "There's a guy who needs some food!" *BOOM...! ...schlurf ... the burger, ready wrapped, falls into the person's hand* The Stealth Burger. Smart Burg! Fine, fine. Call me crazy if you like. But hey, we have all this amazing technology, so why can't we shoot food at hungry people? It would do so much for world peace. Imagine everyone stuffing themselves silly. "I know I'm supposed to fight you, but we're both too fat to move. Ah, forget it." Just imagine it! A world completely full of fat people. Lawyers unable to sue anyone because they can't move. Parliaments would be too permanently glued to their keisters to pass any more stupid laws. Scammers unable to ring anyone because their fingers would be too big to type. Wouldn't it be nice? Hmm ... where do you put the George Foreman Grill, then? *curious* (I know, I know: anywhere you want to)
Saute comes from the French Sauter which means to jump, because you are tossing the food about in the pan, can't be done directly on a flat top as there's no handle and flipping it with a spatula isn't the same.
"Grill" also means to question someone intensely. I'll bet the senior partner in the law firm I worked for could've cooked onions just by questioning them in his calm, inimitable, even kind manner.
True, but if the boys in blue threw someone in the sneezer until they could see the D.A., somehow I don't think it would be the same.
Interestingly on that there are two separate etymologies the grill as in cooking comes via both old english and old french from the latin Craticula, a grid iron - held over a fire to cook meat etc, which itself was derived from Cratis - hurdle or wickerwork which is similar in basic design of crossed struts. This is the same root as Graticule, which is the crossing of lines in a gun sight grill as in to interrogate comes from the Old English Griellan- to anger vex or offend, which itself comes from the west germanic Gralljan - to shout or make angry
The Foreman grill would be classified as a panini press today. It still maintained direct contact with the food. That's the key with a grill.
Oops! I beg your pardon, Catriona. 'People in blue' it is. Earlier comment cheerfully withdrawn. I was only thinking of a much earlier era of policing, to wit the 1930s and 1940s -- hence the slang term 'sneezer' for jail. (I doubt anyone still uses that term, do they? Now I'm curious).
I've never heard the term "sneezer," or have forgotten it if I have. Hoosegow, clink, slammer, durance vile, lock-up, and can are the slang words that come immediately to mind. Hoosegow was my dad's (another LEO) favored slang. Trivia: it comes from Spanish juzgado, meaning courthouse.
I've never heard of "durance vile". Where does that one come from? IIRC, I've only seen the term "sneezer" once, in one of Raymond Chandler's letters. But I never forgot it, because it makes sense - it's so easy to catch something infectious in jail. Never heard that one either. *looks it up* Another synonym is "greybar hotel" - from wiktionary:
