From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60620
Date: 2008-10-06
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From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
>>
>> I was about to comment that many a diner menu here in the USA
>> offers a "Roast beef sandwich with au jus sauce", but on
>> reflection I really haven't seen that much since we've moved
>> into the dull age when the standardization of Macdonalds,
>> Burger King, and Arby's have replaced the idiosyncrasies of
>> Joe's Diner and the Dewdrop Inn.
>
> Arby's serves a roast beef sandwich with au jus, or at least
> they did when I worked there for a few months as a teenager.
>
> I heard more than one customer in that time pronounce 'au jus'
> as "oh juice".
>
> David
>
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I have so trouble understanding how it can be both a "sandwich" and "au jus"
?
Can you explain what happened to the unfortunate roast beef to get into that
kind of predicament ?
Arnaud