# Food Adventures in Translations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-adventures-in-translations/1012276 "2024-12-28T22:00:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-adventures-in-translations/1012276/21 "2024-12-29T18:30:02Z")
As an American, my idea of meatloaf is made with ground beef: > **[Meatloaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatloaf)** > > Meatloaf is a dish of ground meat that has been combined with other ingredients and formed into the shape of a loaf, then baked or smoked. The final shape is either hand-formed on a baking tray, or pan-formed by cooking it in a loaf pan. It is usually made with ground beef, although ground lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry, and seafood are also used, sometimes in combination. Vegetarian adaptations of meatloaf may use imitation meat or pulses. > The cooked meatloaf can be sliced like a loaf of... Unfortunately, there seems to be the belief that _Fleischkäse_ should be translated as meatloaf. And it is a loaf of meat, but it’s the same texture as the insides of a hotdog. And if you’re expecting meatloaf with ground beef, the other version is rather disappointing. > **[Leberkäse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leberk%C3%A4se)** > > Leberkäseⓘ (German, literally 'liver-cheese'; sometimes also Leberkäs or Leberka(a)s) in Austria and the Swabian, Bavarian and Franconian parts of Germany, 'leverkaas' in the Netherlands and Fleischkäse ("meat-cheese") in Saarland, Baden, Switzerland and Tyrol) is a speciality food found in the south of Germany, in Austria and parts of Switzerland. It consists of beef, pork and bacon and is made by grinding the ingredients very finely and then baking it as a loaf in a bread pan until it has a Le... The other one is maispoularde, which is often directly translated as “corn chicken”, even though it should be corn-fed chicken. And looking for the exact cut in English, I found this Wikipedia page about Airline Chicken. I’ve never heard this term. [Airline chicken - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_chicken#:~:text=Airline%20chicken%20or%20airline%20chicken,of%20the%20breast%20is%20boneless). ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-adventures-in-translations/1012276/22 "2024-12-29T18:41:27Z")
Airline chicken is for me a **[chicken supreme or suprême de volaille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_(cooking)#Chicken)**. Airline does not do it justice, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-adventures-in-translations/1012276/23 "2024-12-30T00:08:24Z")
For people who take their teabagging seriously ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-adventures-in-translations/1012276/24 "2024-12-30T00:25:43Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > 52 bucks for an exploded colon? I guess it’s one of those “we only have to sell one” things. The French supermarket should have various forms of tripe. Some of those dishes have interesting names, too. > [@hogarth](#): > > I think it was some kind of grain beverage. Could be barley [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-adventures-in-translations/1012276.md?page=1)