Talk:Praline (nut confection)

message: A recent edit removed the phrase "and of a pastry ingredient made from them".  This refers to ground-up praline, also known as praliné, mentioned further down.  It seems useful to mention this in the opening paragraph.  Comments? --Macrakis 23:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: An anon changed the pronunciation from "PRAH-LEEN" to "PLAY-LEEN". I can vouch the former is that of the U.S. Gulf Coast, but I've occasionlly heard the latter said by some tourists visiting New Orleans, so it may be geographic. Does anyone have some good info on how it prounounced where? -- Infrogmation 22:18, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: PRAY-LEAN is a strong competing pronounciation here in Southern England. I'd guess its the most prevalent form in British English, but don't have any data. I've put in two varients. Francis Davey 14:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

text: PRAY-LEAN is most common in RP, the others are variants I have heard amongst British English speakers without strong dialects. PRAH-LEAN is pretty rare here. Francis Davey 18:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

text: My stodgy old Merriam-Webster (7th ed., 1971) has both PRAH-leen and PRAY-leen as pronunciations, so the bit about one being correct and the other becoming accepted is rather dated, no? The online 11th ed. entry lists three pronuns.--65.216.141.50 14:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: This text was copied direcgtly from the referenced website (and it is of very poor quality).
The French and Belgians do not have the same definition of the word “praline”. In France, it is a roasted almond or hazelnut wrapped in drop and icing sugar. In Belgium, the definition of the “praline” describes a chocolate sweet, generally filled. Jean Neuhaus invented it. The house of Neuhaus was founded in 1857, and originally made pharmaceutical sweets, but evolved over the years into a pastry shop famous throughout the city. In 1912, Jean Neuhaus Jr. invented the first cold-filled chocolate sweet, which he named a “praline”. Three years later, he invented a new type of cardboard package, the familiar tuck-in end chocolate box. The company constantly developed new recipes for its pralines.http://www.belgium.be/eportal/application?languageParameter=en&pageid=contentPage&docId=28177
CapnPrep 15:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: :They should never be referred to as "Dulce de Leche over Nuts."
Where did this come from? Is someone trying to be funny? It doesn't get any hits at all on google excluding the same article. And anyways, caramel and dulce de leche are not the same thing, so what is the point of the comment? --Vlmastra 00:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Paragraph 

message: Is it reallyt necessary to have 3 different pictures of the exact same pralines?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by OGOL (talk • contribs) 15:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: I edited this section to reflect the true consistency of pralines in America. They are creamy like fudge, not brittle like peanut brittle. I have never seen a brittle praline -- that would be considered burnt. Before making this change, I checked each reference listed by the author(s). Three of those sites clearly described the praline as creamy; the other had no reference at all to the consistency.Lkt215 (talk) 00:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that's not an arrogant assumption at all (the true consistency)...  Pralines come in many different varieties in North American.  They are similar to cookies, meaning you can make them soft or hard depending on how you like them.  Many candy stores sell pralines as nuts (usually pecans) covered in carmelized sugar, so again these would not be anything like fudge.  I have had ones that were soft, but my point is there are a lot of varieties.  Lime in the Coconut 14:53, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pralines in America - creamy, not brittle! 

message: They are usually almonds and sometimes hazelnuts? In the UK at least, this seems backwards, I can think of several popular confections (sweets) with hazelnut praline and none with almonds.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.235.216 (talk) 09:39, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: confusing as it may seem , germans use the term nougat when they mean praliné (gianduja) -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nougat 83.101.79.89 (talk) 05:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: At least in Dutch the word 'praline' generally means a small chocolate typically made in Belgium (although the Dutch themselves mainly use the French word 'bonbon', which in French means a sweet/candy in general). Since the English article is mainly about the nut/sugar syrup blend, it is not only misleading to have direct links to other languages in which 'praline' means something different, but the prominent photograph of 'Belgian pralines' surely has no business here. As the article actually makes clear, they're usually called 'Belgian chocolates' in English, precisely because of the other meaning of 'praline'. I've no idea how to correct this (and it may well apply to other languages), but simply linking articles with the same name, regardless of language, is misleading. In my view this is one of Wikipedia's worst failings. I've put a similar comment on the Dutch-language site.188.203.49.105 (talk) 17:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to other languages 

message: Even IF praline is French for Clitoris, does this need to be HERE? The subject is the sweet, not body parts. ThomasHarrisGrantsPass (talk) 19:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I would have deleted the section if I did not find a reasonable source for the statement. I do not find the single cited use use in literature all that informative and would support deleting the section. If it were a major literary theme, I might have argued otherwise. BiologicalMe (talk) 21:19, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pardon my French? 

message: will someone please add this article to the category for ice cream flavors?  thanks!  50.215.218.33 (talk) 02:45, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ice cream flavor