woolybanana Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Tourist Dish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 We have a few of those on the beaches around here in the Summer. [:P]Unfortunately I no longer find walking on the beach easy as the stick sinks into the sand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 [quote user="Judith"]I think tasting platter covers it well - a platter is slighter larger than a plate (at least I always think so) and you are tasting several items ... certainly for me that its the best translation.[/quote]What's more - to my mind at any rate - "plate" conveys the china/plastic/pottery/paper job you put it on whereas "platter" conveys the dish and the contents.The salad argument is still academic to me as I don't do raw food (well, apart from steak tartare, that is) but, like the French, I tend to think of it as basically green as well as inedible.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 "Er, Kylie, 'ave a look at the me n u, larfff, look they got a disgusting plate. Bloody Frogzz" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Thanks all..I reckon it is tasting platter...but I still like jj's medley... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Yes, I like medley too NH. So I would say Tasting Platter: a delightful medley of......... and then a list of the things that will go on the platter, which would hopefully merit the 'delightful' description. That's what I would do. Menus these days are full of flowery language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 I've come across both tasting plate and tasting platter in UK, as well as sharing plate and sharing platter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanb Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]...a pet hatred of mine is two nouns banged together into a compound rather than using a phrase Justice Minister instead of Minister of Justice). But I wander....[/quote]I think you're fighting a losing battle there, Norman. Banging nouns together without a preposition is standard English, surely: government spokesman, restaurant manager, sales director, cherry orchard, safety belt, vegetable soup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 [quote user="idun"]So I would say Tasting Platter: a delightful medley of......... and then a list of the things that will go on the platter, which would hopefully merit the 'delightful' description. That's what I would do. Menus these days are full of flowery language. [/quote]I remember having to create a whole raft of menus for a food court bid we did years ago. Doing 100 plus definitions of various dishes tried our imaginations to the limit and at one point somebody came up with the wonderful "a host of golden fries." At least we were able to have a good laugh as we were getting bored rigid by this time. Second only to doing a wine merchant's list every year - 2000-odd different descriptions for wine.[:-))][:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Your "host of golden fries" reminds me of the "mess of smelts" we had in Pittsburgh. [:)]http://nancyharmonjenkins.com/topics/maine/smelt-season/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Sounds better than Esau's mess of pottage, or the pot of message as Neville Coghill used to say of articles with a heavy slant [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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