Since my wife has purchased a lot of onions at one time, I have tried to cook farce with them. The name, farce, was not familiar to me until cooking this. But it is only onion stuffed with minched meat seasoned with bouillon.
So it will be a few days continued we take this dish for dinner.
Shin,
ReplyDeleteThat use of the word 'farce'is entirely new to me. It usually has decidedly comic associations, but I am sure there is nothing hilarious about your cuisine!
John
John,
DeleteI wondered what caution or pointing error came from the editor in chief! Nervous!! Isn't it a word from French? The recipe has described the name of dish as farce. Any correction will be welcomed.
Shin
Shin
ReplyDeleteThe origins of the word are indeed from French:
Early 16th century from French, literally ‘stuffing’, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.
(Oxford English Dictionary)
But as noted above, this usage has long disappeared from the English language. It now describes a comical situation or an embarrassing failure:
A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
‘he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces’
(OED again)
Some modern TV comedies are classified as farces, such as Monty Python's Flying Circus
John
Thanks, John. So I should have described it as Onion stuffed with minched meat.
ReplyDeleteQuite possibly Shin,
ReplyDeleteIn our virus maelstrom, have a look at :
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/johnson-as-churchill-history-repeat-as-farce
John