Talk:Cassoulet

message: "by tradition, at the start of World War II, there was an excellent cassoulet in a country restaurant in the departement of Lot that was then over a hundred years old."
What was that supposed to mean? David.Monniaux 20:14, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: French colloquialism refering to the aroma and residue of an unwashed vagina. Napoleon Bonaparte is reputed to have asked Josephine not bathe while he was away at battle so that he would be able to enjoy her aroma or cassoulet upon his return.
I'm french and I have never heard anything about the colloquialism you speak about (???)
I'm removing this, as it's almost certainly vandalism (and would put anyone off their food). In the unlikely event of someone finding a reputable source, we can think about putting it back. Bbird 17:24, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cassoulet 

message: I've just read claims that the cassoulet of Castelnaudary uses only quadruped meat.  That's not so.  All recipes I've seen use both confit d'oie and a whole roast duck.  I've updated the page accordingly.  See my references at http://www.lemis.com/grog/recipes/cassoulet.html for discussion (but, alas, not a good recipe).  Groogle 04:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confit 

message: The paragraph called "The Joke" about some obscure incident is completely irrelevant and distracting and should be removed. Please do it, someone.  May 15, 2009  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.170.119.164 (talk) 01:15, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I also have never heard of this, and I was glued to election and post-election coverage. It's surely exaggeration to say it had a "burst of unexpected fame." Therefore I will do as the anonymous commenter suggests and delete it. Cmprince (talk) 17:34, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''The Joke'' section 

message: The article states that this dish goes back to 14th century France, and supports it with a link to a puff-piece article from "Dining Chicago" - hardly an authoritarian source, the article itself cites no sources whatsoever.
The big problem I have with this is that haricot beans - a defining ingredient in the recipe - are not native to Europe, and were only brought in after the discovery of the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. ( see the article on beans - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean )
Add in the fact that as far as I am aware there were no recipes until at least the 1600s that even vaguely resemble cassoulet, and I think the alleged origin is completely bogus.  Unless someone has some stronger support for a medieval origin for cassoulet, I'll delete it.
--Doc (talk) 18:03, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with history 

message: Reverted an edit adding the word "yet" to the sentence ending "a definitive relationship has not been established".  Sorry if my reverts were insulting to Irondome. I'll try to clarify. The way I read it, the word "yet" adds an implication to the claim that isn't supported by the rest of the article: namely that someone is trying to (or will) prove that cholent/solet and cassoulet are definitively related.  That's really the only difference between "it has not been" and "it has not yet been".  If some source is making the claim that cholent is the origin of cassoulet, or vice versa, that would be an interesting addition to the article. But until such a claim is sourced and added to this article, there's no reason to add "yet" except to imply something not in evidence. Richigi (talk) 19:44, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I dont insult that easily. I would suggest adding "yet" as culinary research, as are all subjects, is in constant development. The above edit implies the case is closed, when we simply do not know. In any event, "yet" should therefore be a stimulus for editors, or even a new user to improve the article, if they are aware of a relevant source. Yet is good. Stop press. Actually there is a source which confirms that Cholent and Sholet are the same thing. See http://www.chew.hun/solet Irondome (talk) 19:51, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice response.  Even though I'm not sure I agree (since "has not been" does not imply "will never be"), I yield to your very positive view. It's cool that you found a source for cholent/solet relationship, but that goes in the cholent article, right?  Does it say anything about cassoulet? I think the link is actually http://www.chew.hu/solet (no "n"), but it's not coming up for me: looks like it's temporarily offline. Richigi (talk) 20:45, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks my friend. It seems to confirm their virtual interchangability, I got the site add from the solet google image list. The one on the left. Another site goes into more detail and mentions a Hungarian chef of note, who provides a reciepe here http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/17/2394842/rhapsodic_hungarian_recipes The Cholent article may need to be revisited. Irondome (talk) 20:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cassoulet and cholent: yet changes the meaning 

message: "Cassoulet served in Carcassonne in cassole sized for single serving"
Well done to the person who crafted that superb sentence. 185.103.96.147 (talk) 11:16, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article image subtitle 

message: Sorry my english is not very good.
I have changed caçolet in cassolet. To be transparent, sincere and honest: neither of the two spellings (cassolet and caçolet) are approved by every occitan speakers.
However, I don't understand who have created caçolet (and why) ? It's a totally ideological spelling, which deliberately departs from french and inadvertently from it sister catalan.
The word cassoulet come from the occitan word. French have ç like occitan and catalan. Why french would it write cassoulet with -ss if occitan spelling with -ç ? It's a non sense : Mistral (nobel prize) and Honnorat use the -ss form.
Certain person may come and change the page to reset caçolet. It's their right, but they won't be more right than me. They will cite organizations that have no legitimacy (neither elected nor appointed) to rule on the language. CLO, EIO... it has as much right to have an opinion as I do.
--Biyo Dio (talk) 20:16, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You claim that the spelling caçolet is ideologicaly motivated, but have no source to support this claim. Mistral and Honnorat are not exactly modern references and were both speaking a particular occitan dialect, thus not entirely representative. Gyrostat (talk) 21:37, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why I remove caçolet