Ian H
Pharaoh
I was sort of aware as I was typing... but couldn't be arsed to recast - no disrespect intended.
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I was sort of aware as I was typing... but couldn't be arsed to recast - no disrespect intended.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I like a wander up a garden path, especially as mine at home here is about one metre long, and isn't really a path, unless I strew enough stuff on the paving either side of the route to the clothes line.
Pross
Guru
Found it very stringy the one occasion I had it. My first experience with venison was poor too but that was because the posh person my mum used to clean for and who gave her the meat provided a very middle class 80s recipe that completely ruined it.
C R
Squire
It is the cooking that makes it. Rabbit has very little fat, so the recipe needs to account for that.
Ian H
Pharaoh
Some years ago, in a French restaurant, my menu choice was queried: did I know what lapin was. She didn't think the British ate rabbit.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I had a memorable one in Tours, as the plat du jour. All on the bone, of course.
First Aspect
Squire
I didnt know it was frowned upon in the UK to be honest. And yes, I've had it on tasting menus in the UK.
Sorry Hazel.
Sorry Hazel.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I thought it best not to point out it's not terribly clever to misspell 'desserts'.
Pross
Guru
It's not frowned upon as far as I'm aware, more just Brits tend to have more squeamish tastes when it comes to eating certain animals (see also the big fuss around horse meat).
The Crofted Crest
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Pross
Guru
That's deserts, the hot place with lots of sand though.
The Crofted Crest
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Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves." The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.
Based on the way the second word in just deserts (“the punishment that one deserves”) is pronounced one would be forgiven for imagining that it came about in reference to some form of discipline involving custards, cookies, or petits fours. It might even make one wonder why there are not other meal-based forms of chastisement in our language; why no deserved breakfasts, no requisite lunches, no warranted teas? Because it’s not that kind of dessert.
Based on the way the second word in just deserts (“the punishment that one deserves”) is pronounced one would be forgiven for imagining that it came about in reference to some form of discipline involving custards, cookies, or petits fours. It might even make one wonder why there are not other meal-based forms of chastisement in our language; why no deserved breakfasts, no requisite lunches, no warranted teas? Because it’s not that kind of dessert.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
You have to be particularly in French, as the double-S is unvoiced (whereas it's voiced in 'désert'), where in English it's voiced, with the only difference in English being the stress on the first or second syllable. I fell into the trap until corrected by a friend.
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briantrumpet
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Ah, that makes perfect logical sense. I shall scurry away to the OED.
