# Chicken Ala'Ronge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885 "2002-12-15T15:17:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/1 "2002-12-15T15:17:44Z")
I open the paper this morning, and the local Holiday Inn is having a Christmas Buffet on Christmas Day. They listed all the food they were planning on having, and there it was, right after the “Chef Carved Prime Rib” and “Smoked Ham with Sauces” - “Chicken Ala’Ronge”. What exactly is “Ronge”? Is it some sort of Middle Eastern Chicken dish? Is it French Free-Range chicken? Because it certainly could NOT be a massive mispelling of that classic french dish, Chicken a l’Orange. \ I knew I lived in an area with a large population of uneducated bumpkins. I just didn’t know it was quite this bad. What next? Whore’s Ovaries instead of hor d’oeuvres? Fox Grass instead of Fois Gras? What especially hurts is that someone obviously put some thought into how to spell it - it’s not like “ala’Ronge” is a common misspelling. Which means that someone, either at the Holiday Inn or at the local paper, has decided that it’s OK to simply MAKE UP words and spellings. ---
**Author:** ![heimdal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9de0a6/32.png) [@heimdal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heimdal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/2 "2002-12-15T15:25:51Z")
What about Cafe Ole ? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/3 "2002-12-15T15:27:25Z")
That’s right up there with “Served with Au Jus Sauce” _AAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHHHH!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/4 "2002-12-15T15:49:53Z")
Potatoes O’Gratin? How bout some Oar Dorves? (yep, seen 'em both on menus) ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/5 "2002-12-15T17:28:37Z")
Someone called? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/6 "2002-12-15T17:50:37Z")
Yeah, this thread is all your fault. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/7 "2002-12-15T18:03:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*Someone called? \*\* Doh! I just got yer name. I never got it before. \ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/8 "2002-12-15T18:29:56Z")
**Athena** : My dad used to call hor d’oeuvres “whores’ ovaries”. 😃 How about people who call them “ore derbs”? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/9 "2002-12-15T18:40:45Z")
My SO calls 'em “horse doovers” as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/10 "2002-12-15T22:02:53Z")
No, **Athena** , you were right the first time. My screenname is part of my first name and a word I like attached together. **I** didn’t realize it, until everyone started asking about the duck. Et tu, **Eats\_Crayons**? ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/11 "2002-12-15T22:18:32Z")
Just as a side note, there’s a place in northern Saskatchewan called “Lac la Ronge”, which seems to translate as “Corrosive Lake”. (“Ronger” means “to gnaw” according to the dictionary, though I did get “to corrode” back from one of the translation engines I hit.) I don’t think I want that duck. The potatoes might be good though. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/12 "2002-12-15T22:38:06Z")
They just don’t know that, when preparing chicken, there’s a right way and a ronge way. [sub]It hurts to know that I’m actually going to post that.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/13 "2002-12-15T22:52:02Z")
Oh, Ringo, Ringo, Ringo… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/14 "2002-12-15T23:05:20Z")
Mmmmm…whore’s ovaries…gaaaahhhhh… ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/15 "2002-12-16T01:53:44Z")
So I wonder if this restaurant also puts on the menu: _Soup of the day:_ **Soup Du Jour** (I visited a greasy spoon in upstate NY once that did that very thing - when I asked what the soup was, the waitress actually replied, “It’s Soup Du Jour, hon, just like it says on the menu.”) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/16 "2002-12-16T02:43:35Z")
Once in rural Wisconsin I stopped at a local restaurant, and ordered the chicken cacciatore. What I got was chicken stewed in a tomato sauce. When I asked for pasta on the side, the waitress said “what’s pasta?” When my query was taken to the cook, he was unable to supply any, but did give me buttered egg noodles with it. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/17 "2002-12-16T03:45:46Z")
TV Guy, you stole mine. I used to frequent a Greek restaurant that had a “Daily Soup Du Jour” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/18 "2002-12-16T13:02:57Z")
Many years ago I saw a newspaper article about euthanasia. The article consistently spelled it “Youth in Asia.” ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/19 "2002-12-16T13:34:12Z")
I’m always personally offended by other people’s spelling mistakes. It’s not so bad-- I’ve managed to make a career out of it. But “Chicken ala’Ronge” is pretty damn bad. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885/20 "2002-12-16T13:37:24Z")
True Story: **Pepper Mill** and I were at a company dinner. A woman next to us suddenly exclaimed (with no irony at all, and in complete innocence): “Hey! This \* Steak au Poivre\* has _pepper_ all over it!” We just looked at each other and stifled our laughs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-alaronge/142885.md?page=2)