Timeline for French Letters and condoms
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| Mar 12, 2015 at 22:20 | comment | added | Hot Licks | "Dutch oven" is called that because the process used to make it was derived from the Dutch process of casting iron (and the design was likely borrowed from the Dutch as well). The name is not in any way derogatory. It's an "oven" because it's large and substantial enough to permit roasting/baking in it when placed over an open fire. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 21:04 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2013 at 4:29 | comment | added | Andrew Lazarus | French vanilla is distinguished by the inclusion of eggs. Pesumably the French were making a more sophisticated custard?! | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 18:26 | comment | added | None | And in France a "French letter" is a capote anglaises. Capote being a military coat. Even more old fashioned would be "redingote anglaise*. (Redingote originating in the English "riding coat"). | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:52 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
US French v. different from UK French
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:35 | comment | added | coleopterist | Thank you. How would a French kiss fit into this line of reasoning? | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:29 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:26 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Dutch courage used to refer specifically first to "Dutch gin" (jenever), then to British gin when William III (who was Dutch) encouraged its production and taxed imported alcohol. The rest owe much to either this period or the Anglo-Dutch wars, and hence are found in the UK as well as the US, where they were popular because the Anglo-Dutch wars had had an effect on the (still loyal) colonists prior to the American Revolution. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:15 | history | answered | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |