# How to talk like a French chef

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-like-a-french-chef/698906>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 19, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-like-a-french-chef/698906 "2014-09-19T03:39:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-like-a-french-chef/698906/1 "2014-09-19T03:39:34Z")

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[It starts fairly tame and gets progressively more intense.](http://www.amyglaze.com/how-to-talk-lik) The text near the end is… well, it’s curse words in French and English, so shoulder-surfers might have their eyes lock on some interesting phrases:

> [@Guy Savoy](#):
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> The other night on one of my days off, I ordered a cocktail at an upscale restaurant that I had never heard of before. It was a mixture of rum and spirits with fruit juice. It sounded interesting but a little too sweet for my taste. I asked the server if it was dégueulasse (deh-guh-lass), which I thought meant ‘gross’.
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> I hear it all the time in the kitchen and I just assumed it meant bad or unsavory. I just wanted to know if the cocktail was good! I really upset the server who stormed away after correcting my French and telling me never to use that word in public. How was I supposed to know? The word means ‘filthy’.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-like-a-french-chef/698906/2 "2014-09-19T13:51:59Z")

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I think you’re misinterpreting the linked article. It’s not written by Guy Savoy but by someone named “Amy Glaze.” Presumably Guy Savoy, born and raised in France, wouldn’t say “How was I supposed to know?” when he uses a French word like dégueulasse. Amy Glaze is the dumbass who did that.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-like-a-french-chef/698906/3 "2014-09-19T16:35:07Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> I think you’re misinterpreting the linked article. It’s not written by Guy Savoy but by someone named “Amy Glaze.” Presumably Guy Savoy, born and raised in France, wouldn’t say “How was I supposed to know?” when he uses a French word like dégueulasse. Amy Glaze is the dumbass who did that.

Bah. It is tagged Guy Savoy, and who the Hell runs a multi-writer blog without using tags to help people find who wrote what?