On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:42:07 GMT, Rhonda Anderson wrote:

> "brooklyn1" > wrote in
> :
>
> And I don't want to hear
>> about down under pussy twaddle because last I looked the net was
>> WWW... any search engine will find <pepper steak> to be exactly what I
>> said and nothing else... calling that abortion posted by the OP pepper
>> steak became a lie resorted to only after my post with links to actual
>> pepper steak recipes. More than enough time has passed to find links
>> to the contrary but no one has done more than flap their lying gums,
>> like you.
>
> I will undoubtedly regret this, but here goes. The net is indeed WWW, and
> the participants in this newsgroup hail from all over the globe. So it's
> not mandatory that dishes mentioned all be named the way they would be in
> the US, nor is it mandatory to post only recipes listing ingredients
> familiar to everyone in the US. There are most certainly more US based
> websites and therefore more hits that will come up giving the pepper steak
> recipe with which you are familiar.
>
> However, it is also possible to find recipes for pepper steak (an English
> translation of steak au poivre that has become the common name used here)
> of the type known here, and they're not only Australian sites.
>
> www.soscuisine.com/en/recipes/view/pepper-steak
> http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf314561.tip.html
> http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/reci...9/pepper-steak
>
> If someone based in the US posts a recipe here which goes by a name that is
> not familiar to me, or is in fact a name I use for a different dish, I'll
> research it. Ask some questions. Look up the unfamiliar ingredients. I
> might comment on the difference.
>
> I'm sure that in the US a reference to pepper steak is to a dish using
> steak and green capsicums. I know that in Australia a reference to pepper
> steak is to a steak in a creamy pepper sauce. It's possible for both to
> exist in the same space time continuum.

sheldon operates in his very own personal space-time continuum. and a very
tedious one it is, too.

your pal,
blake