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Happy Thanksgiving, American Friends!

Feed it to the ducks. When they are nice and fat, roast them!

I can't open the video for some reason, but I know the question of which was the first has been disputed since the first was opened. Who cares?

Of course, mayonaisse is a culinary term and nothing wrong with it.

Fried noodles with duck, green beans, mushrooms, garlic, chilli, ginger, Shaoxing, soy sauce, scallions.

I didn't say otherwise.

Nonsense. While most dictionaries will list meanings by most common to less common, good ones will include minority meanings too and award them equal validity. I'm not saying that the American uses of barbecue to mean a sandwich or a bit of grilled pork are invalid; I'm just saying they are minority usages. "Quaint" is not a word any linguist would use to describe any word.

Yes, that is what the word means to the vast majority of the English speaking world.

People have been saying that since language began, yet we survive. Just about. "Chef" just irritates me more than most because there are several real chefs in my family and I feel this general usage downgrades them!

from the CNN article which triggered this topic She is not a chef! She is a food writer and cook. Grrr!

from the article She is not a chef! She is a food writer and cook. ...to be carried over to the Culinary Terms that Should be Banned topic.

Please not 'a stick'. That is a purely American concept. Butter isn't marked in sticks in most of the world. Also, tablespooon is an inaccurate measurement for butter. Give us weights, preferably metric!

I'd say "the place next door."

Chicken and Chips - Piri Piri Sauce dip

Aaargh! I just heard someone say "toast up the bread". I need to lie down!

and often the waiter will have been told to tell you what the chef/buyer/owner wants to shift first.

Here are some of the early citations

Language history is not with you. The original meeaning of barbecue as a noun was This dates from the late 17th century. A later 18th century meaning is Your preference is more modern. Defintions from OED.

No. Two different, but adjacent provinces. I get confused even though I lived in one of them for a year! Shaanxi. There is no confusion in Chinese. Well, there is a huge amount of confusion about Chinese, but not over these two provinces' names.

dāo xuē miàn dāo xuē miàn dāo xuē miàn Knife cut noodles (刀削面 dāo xuē miàn) are from Shanxi (山西), not Shaanxi (陕西.) Confusing, I know.

Not in any Russian equivalent.

Well, whenever it was first used, and opinions clearly vary, it doesn't change that it is a relatively recently invention and remains a most unwelcome one!

My numbering is a bit random and changes from day to day.

Yup. First mention in writing was 1926. Which means it was used colloquially for some time before that. When I was was growing up we never had one! That wasn't the 1920s though!