Conference rdvax::grateful

Well spanish provides all ya need, and if you're american and don't 
understand the meaning of these words and don't feel comfortable using them 
in conversation, then well, your mastery of american english isn't all that 
great.  Lets face it, English isn't the only language there is out there...

Caliente.

Picante.

    Translate, please.
    
    "Picante" is out, people will say "Your twice cooked pork tastes like
    taco sauce?"  :-)
    
    Jamie

    "Man, they really jerked up this chicken"
    
    "How much jerk did you put in this stuff?"
    
    

	What's wrong with the English word "Piquant"?

Mark

    Fabulous prize?  A Dictionary?
    
    Be still, my beating heart!
    
    ;-)
    
    tim
    

    re .-1
    
    Hey, this is a low budget contest.  :-)
    
    
    re:        <<< Note 344.4 by 11SRUS::MARK "Waltzing with Bears" >>>

	>What's wrong with the English word "Piquant"?

    I don't think it has the right connotation, judging by my lousy desk
    dictionary*.  Besides, it's not macho enough, and I want a word that
    not only connotates that the food is hot, but implies that the eater is
    macho for eating something that hot.
    
    Jamie
    
    *yep, the lousy desk dictionary is the same one offered as the fabulous
    prize.  Because, the word has truly made it when it's in this
    dictionary.  :-)

    

What's the Yiddish word for it? 

You can bet _that_ has the requisite onomatopoeticness

    wha?
    
    :), d

	Two potentials from the DEC-issued "Rogets II The New Thesuarus":

	fiery
	pyretic 

	Come to think of it, Pyretic Pork has a nice ring to it ;-)

	Ken

    
    Re: .9
    I like both Ken's suggestions of "fiery" and "pyretic" but I think the
    Yiddish is sufficient: "Oy!"
    
    Bud

    BITCHIN
    
    as in Bitchin pork
    

    i think i like "pyretic"  :^)

>    i think i like "pyretic"  :^)

Yabbut, so did David Koresh...


:-)

    Hmmm, how about 'zorch' for a base word?  
    
    PeterT
    

    I've always been fond of the Italian term "fra diavlo" (spelling?) for 
    spicy dishes, as in Lobster Fra Diavlo.
    
    Bud

    My real dictionary at home defines "pyretic" as relating to a fever, or
    feverish condition.  That means our definition would be relegated to a
    secondary definition, at least until it really caught on.  I'm not
    ruling it out, but I think we can do better.
    
    What I'm looking for is something that would sound at home in both a
    Texas barbeque pit and a posh downtown Thai restuarant.  Hmmm, maybe
    "Whoooeeee -- these ribs is py-retic!" would work.  :-)
    
    Jamie

    re .1 & .4
    
    It strikes me that "picante" and "piquant" might have the same Romantic
    root.  Anyone know what it would be?
    
    I still need a definition for "caliente," the only Spanish I know is
    "si."  Spanish wasn't offered at my high school.
    
    Jamie

Caliente means hot tempurature and Picante means hot spicy. Anyone who 
watched Speedy Gonzales on the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner show should know 
this...

    re .17
    
    Caliente means "hot." I've heard it used to refer to weather, spicy
    food, heated food, or just plain "heat" in general (even as in the kind
    pitches Roger Clemens throws).  
    
    I think it's used similarly to the way we use the word "hot," including
    all the confusion of multiple meanings.  But I think it works well for 
    adapting to the English language for specifically referring to spicy
    food.
    
    
    Bud

    
    i think the word should be "haaAAAAaaa" (syour spelling may vary)...
    
    to learn proper pronounciation, take a really hot piece of cheese
    pizza, and bit down hard...  then try to talk (specifically, try to say
    "hot")...  the resulting noise will be both entertaining, and quite
    indicative of the experience...  preliminary field tests indicate
    that it understanding of this phenomenon is already somehwat
    universal...          :^)
    
    					da ve 

    8^)....good one da ve...
    
    :), danielle

Let's get to some roots.

The greek for fire is "pur".   So using that for a root to 
invent a word may work.

Can't find the latin for fire.  But under "incinerate", there's the latin 
root "incinerare".  Incinerate means "to consume by burning".   All we 
need to do is get a word that means "to burn by consuming", sort of a 
reversal of the word incinerate, right ?   ;-)

etarenicni doesn't cut it.   Doesn't have a nice ring to it at all ;-)

Any other ideas ?

Ken

Fiery, zesty, tangy?

:^)

- dc

    ...zippy...
    

    frastic.
    

    That sounds like an ice cream flavor
    

    I gave "pyretic" a test run and it didn't go well.  I'm holding out for
    a better word.
    
    How do they say it in Thai, Indian, etc.  There's probably a thousand
    dialects but forgive me, I'm an ugly American.
    
    In other food news, I had the misfortune to try a tofu pup.  I like
    veggie food.  I could change my carnivorous ways and not miss meat one
    bit.  But this tofu pup was the most tasteless, rubbery, hunk of bean
    curd that has ever had the misfortune to pass my lips.  And the saddest
    part is that tofu pups are designed to resemble meat, so its sole
    purpose is to feed vegetarians whose hearts long for flesh.
    
    Jamie

re:       <<< Note 344.27 by STUDIO::IDE "Can't this wait 'til I'm old?" >>>

>    I gave "pyretic" a test run and it didn't go well.  I'm holding out for
>    a better word.
    
Dammit!  And I was looking forward to that dictionary ;-)

>    How do they say it in Thai, Indian, etc.  

At the Thai restaurant in Milbury (before it went under :-/) the Thai host
knew I liked chilis.  The first thing out of his mouth every time would be
the number of stars he rated their fresh chili peppers.  The time of the 
10 star (he said proudly) visit was truly memorable and one I won't forget. 
At the end of the meal that owner came over and gave us a plate of lichee 
fruit on the house "I see you on fire!" =:-O

Hey, how about chili ?  "Man, that seafood pad rik was _chili_!"

Has a nice ring to it, though there's the problem of how to categorize
chili (as in con carne).   Chili chili or just plan chili.  ;-)

Ken

Tonguetinabulating (tongue-tin-ab-u-lat-ing) - a ringing sensation of the oral
	sense organs brought about by ingesting ridiculous vegetables. :-)

    in the albanian language it's said to be "djegur" refering to spicy
    hot. 

> "djegur" refering to spicy hot. 


...that sounds too much like the stuff that put me away on Saturday night...



- lampshade

>    BITCHIN

i kind of like this one

or perhaps:

WICKED
YOWZA
TONGUESPASTIC

- rich

>                   -< so, how does this relate to the Dead? >-

When Jerry says in Althea:

	"this space is getting hot"

it's not clear whether he's referring to a spicy-hot or a heat-hot.

Hence, the quest for clarification. 

;-)

Ken

>    curd that has ever had the misfortune to pass my lips.  And the saddest
>    part is that tofu pups are designed to resemble meat, so its sole
>    purpose is to feed vegetarians whose hearts long for flesh.
    
	hardly, it's sole purpose is to allow vegetarians to socialize at
	BBQ's so they neednt crawl into a corner because of their diet.
	and besides, if they aren't OVERCOOKED tofu pups tend to be better
	than hotdogs!  Just MHO of course.

    i've never had a tofu pup, so i can't really say...  HOWEVER, if they
    are anything like not dogs, all i can say is:
    
    	FEH!  pppppppplllllltttttuiiiiiiiii!  yrrrrechhhhhhh!!!
    
    				
    
    give me my tempeh burgers pleeez...
    
    					da ve

to each his own.  Personally tofu pups and not dogs make bbqing easier and
I thoroughly dislike tempah burgers.

    Try Grilla's rather than tempah burgers.  Even I, a confirmed meat,
    bird and fish eater, likes them.
    
    Marv
    

Warning Sick humor follows...

Geoff

Spicy hot - Koresh:-)

chicken koresh:-)

...and on that note...


"Man this food is WACO!"

"Please pass that thar WACO beef, Maw."                
                       
  
- Mr. Original

    
    WACO as an acronym:   Wicked Awesome CookOut....

waco....

from "we ain't coming out" to "we all cooked out" to what a 
"Wicked Awesome CookOut" it was indeed.

yea,  I've got a sick sense of humor too.
bob

just to keep this note from digressing any further I'll add that I always
say something like "spicyhot" or "hothot"...you can always pretend they are
one word.  and the guy in .-1 eats thai food that'll make you guzzle a total
strangers water.... :)

    Hey, did everybody hear who finally quit smoking?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    David Koresh! :-)

    While eating a rather spicy-hot salsa last nite I came up what I
    thought might be a fitting word. 
    
           how does ziphen strike you? like this schtuph is rather
    ziphen! Yeah, it does have a bit of ziph to it!!!
    
    Andy

    I've been using "pyretic," but it doesn't seem to be catching on the
    way I'd hoped.  But, I haven't had to say "hothot" in a year or so, and
    that's something.
    
    Al Gore seemed to get "information superhighway" into the vernacular
    pretty quickly.  I think I'll write him a letter and ask if he'll
    incorporate "pyretic" into a speech.
    
    Jamie