Question Of the Day for
December 14, 2001
Question was submitted by:
zaphod beeblebrox˅ more ˅
I like Sirloin medium rare. So how did Sirloin get it's name?
- Alphabetical nameing of meat cuts.
- It was knighted.
- From "seared" Lion of beef.
- Named after a gartered Knight who was a chef.
Explanation: King James the 1st was so taken by a tasty loin of beef he was eating at Houghton Tower ( a 16th century castle in Lancashire England)He drew his sword and Knighted it, creating Sirloin of beef ( I think maybe he had had a flagon or two of mead) It is said that Shakespear also stayed there. He was also known to bend an elbow on occasion without a pen in his hand..
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| Total Responses | 370 |
| Total Correct | 160 |
| Correct | 43.24% |
| Count | Percentage | Answer |
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| 26 | 7.03% | Alphabetical nameing of meat cuts. |
| 160 | 43.24% | It was knighted. |
| 144 | 38.92% | From "seared" Lion of beef. |
| 39 | 10.54% | Named after a gartered Knight who was a chef. |
People who correctly answered:
- Just bizarre enough to be true,
- astropsi knows these things
- CRB Downunda
 olddog ˅ more ˅ Is this the original urban legend? - Mary Jane Rottencrotch
- nameing...try naming of meat cuts. DORK = ZB
- R O L L O • T O M A S I •
- DiscriminatingQOD'er
˅ more ˅ - booda
˅ more ˅ Hans "it lived in the Castle Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, next door to the Castle Anthrax" Brinker here in the Netherlands, always amused by the behavior of silly English kaniggets. Always wondered too if there's a Sirbrisket, a Sirflank and a Sirtubesteak. - nameing....try naming, ZB is a RUNT DORK
- El Bandito
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˅ more ˅ Take a New Kid fishing!!!
- Neb is an idiot.
- tokadi
˅ more ˅ - Ugly John
˅ more ˅ All the answers are Wrong,
it's from the french surlonge wich means on top of the longe wich is another meat cut. Just like filet and contre-filet. shall i go on? - Ugly John
˅ more ˅ Check it out fot yourself at http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/sirloin.htm - DFC Gal
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"But when does it become justifiable homocide?" - xx
- Critters
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˅ more ˅ Sorry ZB. Look up "sirloin" at www.dictionary.com and you'll find it's actually from the Old French surlonge which means "above" the "loin". It also points out the the popular "knighting" story is bogus (from Webster's)! - Eugene the Jeep, clueless without a middle answer
- Cory Phaeus
˅ more ˅ All-apocryphal, all the time! - terry bigham
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˅ more ˅ MI svengali has heard the "knighted" story before but it isn't true. The origin of sirloin is French. - The French will likely argue this point, They have difficulty admitting defeat. Buster
- Ugly John
˅ more ˅ see Surlonge (over the loin)
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˅ more ˅ MI svengali agreeing with yesterday's posters that for some reason QOD is loading very slowly. Ted, it was a grammer question. Sven is one of he thinks about four people in the U.S. who has never smoked that bad weed, believe it or not. It was highly frowned upon at Sven's alma mater. -
˅ more ˅ MI svengali noting from Ugly John's diagram up there that cote de boeuf is probably the most popular in France. I used to order that often during numerous business trips to Renault in Paris. - I'll bet Critters did that on pupose, huh?
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˅ more ˅ juancho: good example of a type of false etymology called "folk etymology". Not True. Sirloin comes from Sur (lower) Loin (vertebrae). -
˅ more ˅ Wyatt Earp
WACC * 01 & CAN - olddog
˅ more ˅ - No, there is no Sir Tubesteak but there is a Sir Slider.
- xx
- bassnbob
˅ more ˅ - Da GURU
- mojo
- Ugly John
˅ more ˅ Juancho : Sur is a french word meaning on top his oposite in french is sous meaning under. And Longe is a cut of meat so the part over the longe (loin) would be called surloin, but after centurys of "englishing" the word surlonge it became sirloin.
- xx
- There was, however, a Bugs Bunny cartton where Bugs clobbers somebody with a sword and then hollers theatrically "Arise, Sir Loin of Pork! Arise, Sir Brisket of Beef" which I always liked. I'm afraid that this is as close to right as this gets, but a good QOD anyway, ZB.
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˅ more ˅ the tagger - xx
- davidmorem
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˅ more ˅ Ted - kenny
˅ more ˅ - King Nadine
˅ more ˅ ... Today in History: 1910, Brian Meeple bumped his head... 1948, Pierre Lefon painted his bike... 1983, Umruhu Ali peed on a tree. - Who gives a CRAP whether it is ORIGINALLY french or english or Vietnamese....the people that MADE the name sirloin synonomous with fine beef are AMERICAN...and seared on a grill is the ONLY way!!! Forget all that "beouf in sauce" crap...the french could screw up any good meal with some ridiculous sauce. Don't even give the brits credit for any recipe involving meat...they couldn't boil a hotdog if someone else boiled the water!!!
- Ugly John
˅ more ˅ I think it's a safe bet that you put ketchup on your eggs - I think QODers need to organize a clothing drive for poor Winona Ryder so she can have some decent stuff....
- You have just confirmed that in gereral americans have no taste whatsoever. If sirloin is the best cut of meat in your mind shame on you. Give me a prime rib roast or a T-bone steak any day. You of little taste can keep THAT french sirloin crap. It has a aftertaste of frogs legs anyway.
- xx
- Ugly John must really be ugly to admit it! Be totally honest...call yourself "Ugly Moron John!"
- I can place a quarter in my nose!
- "I" can place a fifty cent piece in your nose...as well as a bunch of knuckles.
- xx
- That would be the last time you would have knuckles.
- flan the man
˅ more ˅ btw, YS, We are conected, my mother and sister live in Denver and my son and grandbabies live in the Springs - I have this overwhelming urge to sniff Mary Jane's rottencrotch? Does that indicate serious mental illness or not?
- Zis iz only a mild dizzorder. To vant to eat her vould be serious.
- I got a wee turtle trying to stick its head out.
- xx
- moko
- biff henderson
˅ more ˅ once ate sirloin of beef till it came out his ears. - Nope, I'm sorry the doctor with the lisp is wrong. Wanting to sniff Mary Jane is absolutely positive evidence that you are 100%, down the road, fried behind the ears, stone loopy with a captital loop.
- flan, you and I have something in common, I live somewhere too.
- Yes, I'm afraid that wanting to sniff Mary Jane is almost as bad as frenching ole Queenie Nadine. Well, not really frenching that would be a lot worse. eeeewww!
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˅ more ˅ I have six dollars. - ....*hic*....nishe one...*hic*... beefrod.. ... I meen zeefrod...*HIC*... ... .... ... ....... .. *PLOP*
- I need six dollars.
- CATEYES
- Savannah Foomah
˅ more ˅  zaphod beeblebrox ˅ more ˅ - zaphod beeblebrox
˅ more ˅ OK OK so how did Venison get it s name? There was this serf naqmed Sven but he had a lisp and it came out ven,. Then he had a son and he became known as Venson. Now this lad was good with a long bow and.....er........ - Beeblebrox! You're FIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED!!!
- Why don't you just go ahead and blow the guy with six dollars, and then maybe he'll give you his six dollars, then you'll have six dollars and he won't be able to post "I have six dollars" anymore. Once you've blown him and received the six dollars, don't come around here posting that you have six dollars. Let him post "I had six dollars, but now I'm smiling."
- Well, maybe he'll need the six dollars for hamburger money when his wife kicks him out for letting you blow him.
- It's Shmock. FRIDAY! FRIDAY! --- Ned... er, something's not right with that.
- ahh, arguing about meat cuts. I long for the days when "hats" ruled the QOD
- myssangel
˅ more ˅ - flan the man
˅ more ˅ - Last one to post today has to give Queen Nadine a sponge bath.
- zaphod beeblebrox
˅ more ˅ Ah now sponge! where did it get its name from. Well the sponge I met was called George. Now he ws an acountant thus a very dull sponge. But unlike me could spull. Next to George was another sponge called awysocki a very odd sponge......er..... - Charybdis
- *.Young
- Nyalpers
- Beeblebrox! You're FIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED!!!
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˅ more ˅ YellowSnow~ Neet Flan! I used to live in the Springs, liked it better there, but work was here. I came from Ohio, via Florida. But, you'll still never catch me, Bwhaa haa haa. ;-) - cgarrett1999
˅ more ˅ Take A Kid Fishing!!! - Emanon
- Wally
- Wally
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