There can't be any need to comment on this word, can there?
I mean, rissole. It's all hissing disgust. No wonder we now tend to call them croquettes, instead.
But tell me: does a rissole by another name taste quite as much of glue and sawdust?
Word Not To Use Today: rissole. This word is French, and probably originally from the Latin russus, which means red.
Not that I've ever seen a red rissole, but there you go.
Well, I've always connected rissoles with risotto which just shows how much I know. Haven't had a rissole in years but can remember them not being TOO dreadful at school. Much better than stew....we used to peer at our plates, spear a piece of gristle and hold it up to our friends and say: "Anyone we know?" How disgusting we all were"
ReplyDeleteAnd what fun you had being revolting!
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can remember rissoles only existed in school dinners. How I remember the doom-laden scent of them spreading through the preprandial corridors like the combined flatus of a hundred dyspeptic hippos.