AIBU to use the word "pate" for a vegetarian dip?

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I use the word "pate" generically for stuff I plan to spread on toast. The example today is fried red capsicum pepper and shallots with leftover wheatberry and beans salad whizzed up with some cream cheese and pepper. DH says it may only be called a dip because it contains no meat nor fish. It's thick enough to spread and nobody is expected to dip anything in it. I concede that pate usually includes meat or fish, but there are also vegetarian mushroom pates, so I'm not the first person to use pate in this context.

Majority verdict rules. AIBU to call this a pate?

No you are not - he is!

Nope, you can get veggie pates

Yanbu. They sell veg pate in supermarkets. The NHS advice in pregnancy is to avoid all pate, including vegetable pate so the NHS clearly believe such a thing exists!

I believe pâté means something that has been made into a paste - so go right ahead.

Pate is French for pate, so he is wrong and you are right, OP.

Damn - didn’t proof read - I meant to say pate is French for paste!

You're right. He's wrong.

If he said he'd eat his hat if wrong, natch serve with veggie pate

YANBU. Mushroom pâté is lovely - and definitely a pâté.
I like the way autocorrect is putting in the â for me.

If it is firm enough, it's pâté

firm enough = can be sliced

No it do not need to contain meat or fish

Ah now, it wasn't firm enough to be sliced. Although it didn't make it into the fridge and might have got firm enough if it had.

Despite the root of the word being the same, everyone knows the difference between meat paste and a pate

Are you forgetting A Spread? Not as thick as a pate but not as runny as a dip?

You're right, he's wrong. You can buy mushroom pâté etc in the supermarket and it's definitely called pâté.

Spread conjures up Nutella, marmite.
Or nasty stuff in jars of indeterminate ingredients.
Oh, margarine type stuff as well.

I think op homemade veg stuff warrants a better word than spread.

How about

Today's delicious concoction?

Just reread op and it does sound yummy

YANBU. Smoked mackerel pate is not firm enough to slice (IME), but is still called a paté.
You could stretch the boundaries & ask him if the cheapo sardine & tomato or chicken & ham sandwich pastes you can get in a little jar for 49p are, in fact, pate, as they contains fish / meat?

I've bought veggie paté. So no YANBU

pate just means paste anyway.
you could call it dip or spread but pate is fine imo if you make clear what's in it.

“Pate is French for pate”

And there’s no French word for entrepreneur......,

There probably is one for idiot who didn’t proof read her post, @BertrandRussell, and it is moi!

I bet there’s a German word for that!

Lolol - Yes!

Cambridge dictionary says:

pâté
noun [ C or U ] UK
/ˈpæt.eɪ/ US
/pæˈteɪ/

a thick, smooth, soft mixture made from meat, fish, or vegetables.

Woohoo, I win!!! DH has conceded defeat and immediately says I'm obsessed by pate. Cheeky sod.

Thank you @Fraggling, Spread sounds like margarine to me so I'm happy not to be in that category. It was very tasty, yes.