Should I bring my decade-long, mano-a-mano fight with JJ about the proper etymology of BBQ to wiki?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Tilting at barbecued windmills
Should I bring my decade-long, mano-a-mano fight with JJ about the proper etymology of BBQ to wiki?
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For once, I find something useful in Le Monde:
L'on doit peut-être au roumain les mots "barbecue" et "barbaque" : l'un et l'autre viendraient de berbec qui signifie mouton - étymologie plus probante que celle issue de l'expression fantaisiste "faire rôtir un mouton en le transperçant de la barbe au cul".
Powwww!!! OK, JJ, I'll settle for a Piper Heidsieck. Brut, of course.
And, if we get tipsy after that, we can always try La soupe de tripes de veau (tuslama): "épaisse, relevée, à l'ail et au vinaigre, idéale contre la gueule de bois."
AI, wasn't it last July that I was scolding you for not even getting the BBQ out for the summer yet?
In any case, I stand as mere spectator to the AI vs. JJ BBQ Etymology Argument (could we call it a Ten Years War?)
so much for my theory it derived from queuing at Sweeney Todd's
AI, I think it's exactly a wikinationalist thing to do. Don't they think Coanda invented the washing machine or something?
Heh
Great BBQ. More cul than barbe.
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