However, similar words with a different meaning are also quite common ( e. g., German bekommen means " to receive ", not " to become ", and is thus a false friend, which could lead a German English learner to utter an embarrassing sentence like: " I want to become a beefsteak .").

French-influenced dishes are numerous and not limited to: xà lách ( salad ), pâté, patê sô ( a Brittany pasty called " paté chaud ), bánh sừng trâu ( croissant ), bánh flan, ya ua ( yogurt ), rôti ( rotisserie ), bơ ( butter ), vịt nấu cam ( duck à l ' orange ), ốp lết ( omelette ), ốp la ( œufs au plat ), phạc xi ( farcies ), bít tết ( beefsteak ), sốt vang ( cooking with wine ), dăm bông ( jambon ), xúc xích ( saucisse ).

In Argentina and Uruguay, both asado ( beef roasted on a fire ) and steak a la parrilla ( beefsteak cooked on traditional grill ) are staple dishes and even hailed as national specialities.

In Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers ( 1836 / 7 ), the servant Sam Weller says that a pieman used cats " for beefsteak, veal and kidney, ' cording to the demand ", and recommends that people should buy pies only " when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kitten.

Bill James wrote that Zimmer often put a piece of beefsteak inside his baseball glove to protect his catching hand from Young's fastball.

A favorite of Tuscan cuisine, bistecca alla fiorentina ' beefsteak Florentine style ' consists of a T-bone or porterhouse steak ( traditionally taken from either the Chianina or Maremmana breeds of cattle ), grilled over a wood or charcoal fire, and seasoned with salt and, sometimes, black pepper, and ( strictly after the steak is retired from the fire ) olive oil.

A beefsteak is a steak cut from beef cattle.

" Biftek " comes from French " le biftek ", which is borrowed from the English " beefsteak ", while the English " beef " is originally from the French " le bœuf ".

Salisbury served as a physician during the American Civil War, and became convinced that diarrhea suffered by the troops could be controlled with a diet of coffee and lean chopped beefsteak.

Bruises and black eyes were relieved by application of raw beefsteak.

A beefsteak is a flat cut of beef, usually cut perpendicular to the muscle fibers.

Some trace the origins of the modern ( U. S. based ) roast beef sandwich as far back as 1877, with the then little known " beefsteak toast " recipe: cold beef, bread and gravy dish.

Chicken fried steak is prepared by taking a thin cut of beefsteak and tenderizing it by pounding, cubing, or forking.

It is known by a variety of common descriptive names such as brain mushroom, turban fungus, elephant ears, or beefsteak mushroom / morel, although beefsteak mushroom can also refer to the much less toxic Fistulina hepatica.

The beefsteak fungus, a well known bracket fungus, is actually a member of the agarics.

The conventional translation " beefsteak plant " is outdated and has fallen into disuse in current media, though it has not passed into complete obsolesce.

* Perilla, beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso.

Vegetables and herbs such as leek, beefsteak plant also called, and at times, chopped cartilage of fowl may be added to create a crunchy texture.

Greenhouse products include vegetables ( sweet bell peppers, beefsteak tomatoes, tomatoes on the vine, and long English cucumbers ), a variety of flowering plants, and some trees.

Famous he is, but fame is a poor substitute for beefsteak.

" Turner, face beaten to raw beefsteak in six rounds, failed to answer the bell for the seventh.

We had a beefsteak ill-dressed and had nothing to drink but thick muddy beer.

The now less fashionable English name " beefsteak plant " has been superseded by the Japanese-derived name shiso in the mass media and popular literature.

Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

Traditionally, " chips " in the British Isles ( and Australia and New Zealand ), are cut much thicker, i. e., are " chipped " from the potatoes and described in some recipes as " chipped potatoes " not simply " chips ", and are typically between 10 and 15 mm ( 3 / 8 – 1 / 2 inches ) wide.

In Scotland, chips were first sold in Dundee, "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy – the chip – was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

Cod and chips in Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, British Columbia | Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Fish and chips at a Hesburger fast food restaurant in Finland, advertised as particularly British

British chips are traditionally thicker than American-style French fries sold by major multinational fast food chains, resulting in a lower fat content per portion.

It commonly used as the fish in the classic British dish of fish and chips.

Aided by Arthur Treacher's advertisements, these companies introduced British fish and chips to America.

Sainsbury's, which said the new name was derived from the French for cooked pollock ( colin ), launched the product under the banner " Colin and chips can save British cod.

British traditions persist to varying degrees in domestic cooking and the takeaway food sector, with roast dinners, the Australian meat pie and fish and chips remaining popular, but there are also new elements featured in these foods.

Chips and Gravy (" chips " being the British term for thicker French fries ) is a staple of the cheaper bistro style menus, in such places as Royal Canadian Legion and Workers Clubs, where the food offered would not be considered " fast food " but is still cheap and filling, especially for children.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, steak and kidney pudding, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips at British chip shops.

Skipton has many pubs, two nightclubs ( two clubs joined into one building ), and many restaurants ranging from traditional fish and chips to high quality cuisine, taking in modern British, Mexican, Indian, Greek, Chinese and Italian.

Haddock, along with cod and plaice, is one of the most popular fish used in British fish and chips.

The development of trawler fishing in the mid nineteenth century would lead to the development of a British favourite fish and chips, and the first shop in 1860.

These are not to be confused with the British and Australian battered sav, a saveloy deep fried in a wheat flour based batter, as used for fish and chips, which generally does not contain cornmeal.

Pacific Microelectronics Centre ( Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ) was spun off from Microtel Pacific Research ( the research arm of BC TEL at the time ) to develop ATM and later SONET chips.

A British meal of fish and chips served with mushy peas in the ramekin on the right

Other popular fish snacks are kibbeling ( deep-fried nugget-sized chunks of cod ), lekkerbek ( deep-fried cod, similar to the British Fish and chips, but delicately spiced and with a more tempura-like batter ), gerookte paling ( smoked eel ), and rolmops.