# I don't think I'll try DQ's chicken bruschetta sandwich **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093 "2016-03-06T04:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/21 "2016-03-09T21:54:50Z")
Well, I boycotted all high school and college western civilization classes because the professors didn’t pronounce Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας or IVLIVS CAESAR correctly. I also boycott Starbucks because they mislabel their individual wrapped biscotti as “biscotti” instead of “biscotto.” ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/22 "2016-03-09T22:32:41Z")
I’ve been pretty happy with DQs hot food. It’s pretty good, and not as expensive as, say, Arby’s. I always thought bruschetta had something to do with ciabatta bread + diced tomatoes. Not chicken or any sort of condiment. What they’re doing here is called “Marketing”, aka, “Lying”. There’s nothing Italian about this sandwich. It’s a chicken sandwich with diced tomatoes instead of sliced. It’s probably pretty good though, I haven’t tried it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/23 "2016-03-10T00:05:16Z")
Well, tomatoes don’t have to be part of it, nor does ciabatta. It’s just toasted bread with, at a minimum, olive oil and a garlic rub. Here in the US (and elsewhere outside Italy) it often means tomatoes & basil as a topping, too, but various versions exist. Without any further context in the US, when somebody says “bruschetta,” I assume grilled bread with garlic, olive oil, diced tomatoes, and basil. Apparently, as I discovered in the past day or two, the word has also has drifted to refer to this tomato topping, as well. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/24 "2016-03-10T01:04:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Now, Italian pronunciations vary by region, and ‘broo-shetta’ is pretty close to how it’s pronounced in some regional dialects; but not in Standard Italian. [I asked whether the “sh” sound was used _anywhere_ in Italy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=561472). No real examples. > [@wolfman](#): > > I thought Souvlaki was Greek. And at least here in Detroit it’s different than a gyro. Grilled cubes rather than shaved roasted loaf. Both damn good though,… > this thread may have fomented a change of dinner plans. You get people arguing over whether one style is called Greek coffee or Turkish coffee. Better hope an Armenian doesn’t get wind of the conversation! (the correct term for this style is “the dregs of the pot.”) > [@jjimm](#): > > Those are all Americanisations of an antique version of the Naples dialect - probably spoken by around 1% of the Italian population. There is also, in fact, a vowel of sorts at the end of all of those words even in that dialect (_pasta fasuli_ versus standard Italian _pasta e fagioli_), but on transfer to the US the final vowel got obliterated. In other words it’s not pasta fazool in Naples either. I read a good article about it the other day, but can’t find it. Most of the popular culture references to this are in things like the Sopranos, where they are all Sicilian. I can’t imagine that they speak a Neapolitan dialect. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/25 "2016-03-10T01:25:36Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Most of the popular culture references to this are in things like the Sopranos, where they are all Sicilian. I can’t imagine that they speak a Neapolitan dialect. John Gotti was Neapolitan. They speak the American dialect of Italian, specifically the one that sprang up around New York and New Jersey from immigrants who came from many different areas. Those that are descended from turn of the century immigrants don’t maintain separate Italian-American dialects. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/26 "2016-03-10T02:40:41Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I thought Souvlaki was Greek. And at least here in Detroit it’s different than a gyro. Grilled cubes rather than shaved roasted loaf. Both damn good though,… > this thread may have fomented a change of dinner plans. Yeah, souvlaki, as I’ve always had it, is skewered meat in cubes, not shaved meat off a rotating spit. Maybe he’s confusing it with schwarma. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/27 "2016-03-10T08:12:50Z")
Dq has decent ice cream related stuff. Their food on the other hand, I wouldn’t feed that shyte to my worst enemies dog. I have never in my life paid for worse food any other place. this is why I wont be eating anything from DQ ever, ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/28 "2016-03-10T12:53:46Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I thought Souvlaki was Greek. And at least here in Detroit it’s different than a gyro. Grilled cubes rather than shaved roasted loaf. Both damn good though,… In Detroit we tend to add a third pronunciation: “gear-o.” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/29 "2016-03-10T14:43:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, souvlaki, as I’ve always had it, is skewered meat in cubes, not shaved meat off a rotating spit. Maybe he’s confusing it with schwarma. Nah. In New York it’s the shaved meat, same as gyros. The terms are interchangeable, depending on the ethnicity of the restaurant. “Doner,” the Turkish version, is the same thing. But you can get it one soft white round rolls of enormous diameter, European-style. Doner stands in Germany always use the rolls. There’s a schwarma place just around the corner from me. THEY serve the same thing, but in wraps. ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093/30 "2016-03-10T19:59:40Z")
The gyro place down the road from here (DC suburbs) says Hee-ro, sort of. The ‘H’ is harsh and voiced (not sure how to describe this) and might sound a bit like a ‘G’. Kind of as if you swallowed your ‘G’ before letting it out… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-ill-try-dqs-chicken-bruschetta-sandwich/748093.md?page=1)