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Originally Posted by Leto
Anybody know why shepherd's pie is called pâte chinoise in French?
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I asked my mother about this and she thought your reasoning sounded very plausible.
She did mention two other things:
1. It's spelled
pâté chinois, since
pâté is masculine. This fact changed my google results significantly, but still nothing definative.
2.
Chinoiserie is a mixture of things...which is in essence what a
pâté chinois is. Of course, this begs the question, which came first
Chinoiserie or
pâté chinois?
I suspect the actual answer will be very similar to why they call it "Shephard's Pie" in English.
-bear