r/foodnetwork • u/KittyTaurus • 5d ago
The Food Network way to pronounce "vinaigrette"?
So, I always believed it was pronounced "vin-uh-gret."
But on the Food Network they always say "vinegar-ette."
I'm not seeing the full word "vinegar" in "vinaigrette" so why is it being pronounced that way? Am I appallingly unsophisticated for even asking???
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u/birder3339 5d ago
Now if we could just get Guy to stop pretending he doesnât know how to pronounce Worcestershire đ
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u/Raine_Wynd 5d ago edited 4d ago
Aitâs part of his schtick now, same way Rachel Ray never just says âextra virgin olive oilâ.
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u/Krispies827 5d ago
I dunno. It always annoyed me that she would say âEVOOâ and then immediately say âextra virgin olive oilâ. Like, donât create anagrams and then just say what it stands for right after lol
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u/MonstaXPanda 4d ago
It's an acronym not an anagram but your point still stands and I found it annoying too.
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u/tio_tito 4d ago
but she does! it goes something like this, "add a little evoo, extra virgin olive oil, evoo, i love extra virgin olive oil, evoo. make sure when you get olive oil that you get extra virgin, evoo, extra virgin olive oil."
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u/nycpunkfukka 5d ago
Iâve always been a bit of a Rachel Ray hater. An old roommate of mine had an unpleasant encounter with her around 2007, but Iâve been watching old seasons of Worst Cooks in honor of my beloved Anne Burrell, and I canât get over their rapport. Anne seems more playful and relaxed with Rachel than she does with Tyler Florence or even Bobby Flay. Anne and Rachel seemed to genuinely enjoy working together.
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u/elocin1985 5d ago
I hate it. And so many people do it now in videos and comments. Like ok, you can stop now, the joke stopped being funny a long time ago.
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u/AlienPsychosis 5d ago
Donât even get me started on how they all pronounce mascarpone
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u/Old_Cherry_6715 5d ago
The mascarpone thing drives me insane. So so many people say mar-ska-pone. There is NO R after the ma. Geesh.
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u/susandeyvyjones 5d ago
âProshuteâ is the mid-19th century Sicilian pronunciation, and language and culture ossify in imkigrant communities
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u/FinanciallySecure9 5d ago
And turmeric
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u/Sterngirl 4d ago
I know! I pronounce it tur-mer-ik. People that say it is too-mer ic... where did the fucking r go?
Seems to be about 50/50 on Food Network.
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u/schrodingers_bra 3d ago
>where did the fucking r go?
To the same place that the first 'r' in 'February' went.
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u/reconcilingitem 2d ago
THIS!!! I went on a tangent about this once and was informed that âFeb-yoo-aryâ is now recognized as a proper pronunciation in the dictionary. Unreal
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u/OneGoodRib Cutthroat Kitchen đȘ 5d ago
I seriously feel like there's a different pronunciation for each person who says it.
Like, okay, you can't say it the proper Italian way, but they have to realize marscapone isn't right, right??
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u/Known-Tumbleweed129 4d ago
And chipotle. (Theyâre getting better about it now but Iâve been rewatching done mid-series Chopped and itâs rough.)
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u/KittyTaurus 12h ago
I feel like Americans have gotten better at pronouncing chipotle, because Chipotle.
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u/OneGoodRib Cutthroat Kitchen đȘ 5d ago edited 5d ago
Wikipedia says "VIN-ig-RET", which is basically how everyone on earth says it.
I decided if I was ever for some reason on a Food Network show I would deliberately say everything extremely incorrectly. Masacarpony instead of mascarpone, extrapresso, vine-era-greet, war-chester-shyer, prosecute-o, macaroni instead of macarons
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u/ophymirage 5d ago
pedantic French speaker says "the full word 'vinegar' is in there, it's just in French. Vinaigre." :D
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u/amelieducroix 5d ago
Yes! And it's not quite vin-uh-gret, it's more like vin-ay-gret where the 'ay' is like it is in way or say or day. :)
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u/OneGoodRib Cutthroat Kitchen đȘ 5d ago
The wikipedia article has a French person saying it and it was like "vin-ay-grrrreeet"
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u/llmm04 5d ago
Nothing tops Nigella Lawson pronouncing "microwave" as "mick-ro-wah-vay" đ€Ł
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u/alextyrian 5d ago
That one actually makes me so sad. Like, she's said she says it like that at home ironically with her family, she said it once on camera, and people have made fun of her for five years for it.
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u/IMAGINARIAN_photos Brown Food Tastes Good 4d ago
She always pronounced oregano as or-eh-GAHN-o. She was fun to watch.
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u/girkabob 4d ago
That's just the British pronunciation.
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u/IMAGINARIAN_photos Brown Food Tastes Good 4d ago
I love the way non-Americans pronounce words. â€ïž
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u/dogaroo5 5d ago
No they're appallingly unsophisticated for Anglifying a French word. It drives me up the wall.
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u/ArticleOk8955 4d ago
I want anyone who says that or "mars-ca-pone" in a competition on FN to get an automatic DQ.
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u/FortuneTellingBoobs 5d ago
If that's truly the way they are pronouncing it, the Food Network is wrong and you are correct.
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u/Natural_Sky638 5d ago
This is not FN related, but the people who live in Manhattan must be appalled at the way younglings are pronouncing it Man-ahhen... There are 2 Ts for a reason!!!!
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u/Temporary_Prize_7546 5d ago
WaitâŠ.our language still has Tâs? I thought they removed them! đ
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u/NTataglia 5d ago
Its getting to the point where even Bobby and Guy will embarassed to be on theređ€ź. Especially Flay, (I think) he still takes being a chef seriously.
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u/crabhappychick 5d ago
I'm glad to see in not the only one! Even Michael Symon says it wrong and I want to shake every single one of them who mispronounce it!
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u/IndiaEvans 5d ago
Hey, people from different places and families say words differently. Hope that helps.
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u/Capercaillie The Kitchen đ„§ 5d ago
Do we have to have another post about pronunciation? Thereâs no âofficialâ way to pronounce anything. If you said a word and the person you said it to understood what you meant, you did it right.
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u/Ollie-Arrow-1290 5d ago
Zakarian clutches his chopsticks every time someone pronounces it wrong.