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tobacconist · 3 years

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french gastronomist Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière trying mayonnaise for the first time: zis is... simply delicious... ze only problemme is... ze name. is not french. is named after port mahon in menorca? nonono, it is not known for good food. instead we will naming it ‘bayonnaise’ after ze french city of bayonne

#french chef of the same period Marie-Antoine Carême: nono we can keep calling it mayonnaise... but we spell it magnonnaise...#after the verb 'manier' to handle #actually non it was invented in Fauillet Lot-et-Garonne which (apparently) used to be called magnon. do not believe the portuguese lies

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