Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

favourite meal or dish?

English answer:

favourite food

Added to glossary by Patsy Florit
Mar 24, 2010 14:00
14 yrs ago
English term

favourite meal or dish?

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If I want to know about your favourite food, let´s say spaghetti Alfredo, what´s the right question to make What´s your favourite dish? or meal? What´s the difference? And if the answer was : ice-cream?
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+5
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favourite food

Favourite meal would be the whole menu, potentially: starter, main course and dessert.
Favourite dish could be a piece of prized porcelain.
Peer comment(s):

agree omni trad
1 min
Thanks omni
agree Tony M : Yes, this best covers all possibilities
31 mins
Thanks Tony
agree Stephanie Ezrol : or dish could be that ratty old treasured hand-me-down
48 mins
Thanks Stephanie - yes the one grandma passed on because she was fed up with it.
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
5 hrs
Thanks Paula
agree Alexandra Taggart : "dish" represents design on a dish, say - gourmet design/How? If you are a recipient of the dish, would you expect some culinary arrangement on the plate under a serving hood? The contents of the serving would be - a dish.
11 hrs
Thanks Alexandra, though I don't quite understand how you get to "design".
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This is the one that suits me best in this case. Thanks."
+4
3 mins

favourite dish or food

it depends : a meal implies something that might have a starter, a main course and a dessert, whereas a dish is just one element of a meal.
so for your ice-cream question I would go with "what's your favourite dish" or even better "what's your favourite food?" which is more general
Peer comment(s):

agree Jack Doughty
2 mins
thank you Jack
agree Kim Metzger
3 mins
thank you Kim
agree Sheila Wilson : I think you probably need both to cover for example "ice-cream" and "banana split"
58 mins
thank you Sheila
agree Rolf Keiser
3 hrs
thank you Goldcoaster
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+1
6 mins

what's your favorite dish/food?

In my view, favorite meal would involve several dishes

Favorite dish: pot roast, duck a l'orange, chow mein, etc.

Favorite food: ice cream, steak, broccoli, etc.

Favorite meal: prime rib with baked potato, peas, cole slaw and carrot cake.
Peer comment(s):

agree Maria Fokin
20 hrs
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2 days 21 hrs

my favorite dish is...

my favorite dish is...
my favorite plate is...
my favorite food is...
Example sentence:

My favorite plate is “Pollo a la Brasa,” which is one-fourth of a rotisserie chicken with fries...

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