sf > wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:10:49 -0500, "jmcquown" >

>> Chaurice isn't the same as chorizo.

>Where were you a couple of hours ago when I was groping for the word
>Chaurice and couldn't come up with it? I knew it started with ch
>and that's as far as I got.

Possibly because you were thinking of Chourico, a Portuguese sausage
more or less along the lines of a Spanish (not Mexican) Chorizo.
Very common in New England.

Steve