One eats one's chien chaud with patates frites (as opposed to pommes de
terre frites).

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Pierre Abbat
>Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 20:49
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:34645] Re: OT: hot dog
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>
>On Sunday 25 September 2005 18:34, Carleton MacDonald wrote:
>> Two more I've seen.  The first is French and the second is Quebec.
>>
>> Coke Light = Coke Diète
>> Hot dog = chien chaud
>
>Hot dogs were originally called dachshund sausages, but someone
>didn't know
>how to spell "dachshund" and just called it a dog. "Chien chaud"
>sounds very
>silly.
>
>phma
>

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