Talk:Taramasalata

message: Could we get a pic of some taramosalata which is not in a jar. Something that looks like this (), where it has been prepared for "serving" but obviously the pic has to be fair-use. Aggelophoros 22:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: There doesn't appear to be any consensus as to a single correct spelling. However, I propose that the "O" spelling ("taramosalata") be used by default rather than the "A" spelling ("taramasalata") because the article is titled with the "O" spelling and Wictionary uses the "O" spelling by default.
If the "A" spelling is adopted, then this should be done consistently in the title and the body, and the appropriate redirect pages shold be changed and created.
LittlePete 18:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's all Greek to me! Hnrf, Hnrf, Maikel (talk) 21:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Per WP:COMMONNAME, I propose moving this article to taramasalata. The fact that it's a incorrect anglification of the Greek doesn't stop it from being the most common spelling of the word in English languages and this is the English language wikipedia. Of course, the origins and the alternative/arguably correct spelling should remain as prominent as they currently are. GDallimore (Talk) 15:21, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "taramOsalata", derives from "taramas + salad" because if we are to create a new word, this has to be "Taramosalata" and not "Taramasalata"  Additive to the above is also . If we want to have an a on it then, we'll have to make it in two words e.g. "salata tarama" but for Heaven's sake not "taramasalata". Thanks! --Aristo Class (talk) 19:01, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The Greek word is clearly taramosalata. Unfortunately, taramasalata has come to be the common spelling in English (see Google nGrams). WP is descriptive, not prescriptive. We report on the way the world is, not the way we think it should be. --Macrakis (talk) 20:17, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: From Armenian origins and living in France, we are used there to prepare the tarama with cod roe instead of carp's. We should mention this possibility. I don't know if it's because you don't have cod roes in the USA or if my family does a specific version of the tarama (very unlikely, as French websites use cod for the recipes)? Actually, I have just checked, even English/US recipes use cod roe, so I will amend the page living both possibilities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.165.115.225 (talk) 04:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Carp versus Cod

message: Tarama means "matrix" in Turkish.  If Taramas should occasionally be spelt Tarama in Turkish, it's erroneous as probably often happens outside of Greece. Maikel (talk) 21:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Turkish

message: I doubt whether in Greece normal white bread rather than pita is commonly eaten with Taramas, does anyone know for sure? Maikel (talk) 21:38, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is eaten with "normal white bread". "Normal white bread" is what Greeks actually eat.   Pita bread is not Greek. It's actually recent a foreign import, and only served with street food.  This idea of dipping pita into Greek "dips" like taramosalata or tzatziki is a foreign (i.e. American) interpretation of Greek cuisine, and not done in Greece.  In Greece, the bread that's served in homes is loaves, and taramosalata is eaten as a spread on slices of loaf bread. Skyduster (talk) 05:37, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Pita

message: I believe that in Turkish, tarama can mean either the fish roe itself (as suggested by its etymology < taramak 'to comb') or the meze made from it, and it is probably the 'roe' sense that was borrowed into Greek. --Macrakis (talk) 13:07, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Turkish tarama = fish roe or fish roe meze