The name of this food is a boomerang word

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Schnitle means means something that's been cut, right? So, it means something very similar to a cutlet. This gives you an opportunity to mention >> a rare example of what's called a boomerang word, which is a word that has we have lent to someone else and then they've lent it back to us. The word I'm talking about is katsu, as in >> katsu curry, the Japanese curry. Katsu is actually from a Japanese rendering of the English word cutlet.

[00:00:34]>> Oh, neat.

[00:00:35]>> Yeah, it's cool. It's from katsuru. Uh, yeah. And it mean it is just a rendering of because you know how Japanese when it gets an English word, it has to make it fit these rules that it has of it needing to be consonant sound, vowel, consonant, sound, vowel, consonant, sound, vowel. It can end on an N, but that's about it. So you end up with things like beer becomes bir and toilet becomes toy. Yeah. And and cutlet becomes katsuritsu.

[00:01:04]Uh and then they've given that word back to us. So, when we're asking for uh a chicken catsu, we're asking for a chick chicken cutlet.

[00:01:13]But for some reason, we're deciding to go to Japan first to to find the