Cwenelle?

[Spermysextowel]

I’ve just seen a Waitrose advert for a blood-orange & chocolate cwenelle. AIBU to be deeply offended?

I’ve read the entire thread and still don’t have a fucking clue. 🤷‍♀️

I can't add anything to the pronunciation of quenelle apart from always 💭 nag it was a qu sound not a k sound. But I did get a bargain Christmas tree in Waitrose today, half price and a pizza for £1.62 (I was amused by the random reduced price) and £2 off of a thing I can't remember the fucking name of!! It's a Christmas related thing you eat that's German. I've lost the word. You win an After Eight for giving me the bloody word.

Isn't it as in quenelle or Rocher if you're doing it one handed?
I'm sure someone with more fine dining experience than Marcus Wareing will be here soon to set everyone straight.

YABU. I thought this was going to be a thread about misspelling quenelle, but it’s not.

YABU - a quenelle is a term for food, usually a quenelle of ice cream shaped with spoons.

This.

Although, also this is where my mind went when it appeared in 'Active Threads', too
I thought this was going to be a baby name thread

Qué?

Someone from Oxford dictionary should hire you 🏆

Just a dessert for 16 fucking quid!!!

I’m offended by the price but nowt else.

Relieved it’s not just me!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE - WE MADE IT!!!!!!!!

I thought this a baby name thread.

”We named you after Daddy’s favourite fancy pudding.”

So did I. Says a lot about the alternative universe that is the baby name forum.

Going back to the subject. I thought a quenelle was that vaguely 3 sided shaped blob of food that chefs are always creating on Masterchef and Great British Menu. I've never seen it written down, but they always seem to say it with a qu not a k. Are all the expert wrong?

Having googled it, it does seem to start with a k sound.

It's probably Gregg's fault. It seems like someone who would miss-pronounce a word like that.

It must be a common problem because how else would I know that it was spelt with a qu?

Why would you stick a random “r” into it?
that doesn’t make any sense.

Me too, can’t usually be arsed with proper oranges,but come the blood orange season I am at the front of the queue.

or should that be queue-nelle.

I suppose it's the anglicised version of a French word? Like we say 'Pariss' not 'Paree'

Are you alright, love?

Not sure why people are so baffled. OP saw an advert, on which the word 'quenelle' was pronounced incorrectly. That's it. Yes, it's pretty trivial, but so are about 75% of MN threads!

It's pronounced k'nell, as it's French. Also allows you to do the "four quenelles" joke.

It's an odd thing to call that Waitrose pudding. Presumably those blobs on the top are the quenelles but it's strange to call the whole dish a quenelle.

All hope is lost?

🤣🤣🤣

Is everyone on the sherry already???

should be kernelle, not cwenelle. Don’t get me started on choritho or choritso. Cwenelle is the last straw.

No, it should not. Ask a french person

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