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Name for dish into which you discard used shellfish shells?

post #1 of 17
7/27/08 at 6:32pm
Thread Starter 
I read this once but I forgot the name and it's driving me nuts. It's a bowl that you use for discarding the shells of clams, mussels, etc., after you eat the insides…it's a French word (but the same in English). Thanks
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post #2 of 17
7/28/08 at 5:39am
Ummmm..... le trash?




Sorry... couldn't resist.
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post #3 of 17
7/28/08 at 5:46am
bisque? bouillabaisse?
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post #4 of 17
7/28/08 at 5:58am
I was thinking the same...but I think the OP means a plate/dish/bowl name, not a dish one cooks....kinda like the Rachael Ray trash bowl.
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post #5 of 17
7/28/08 at 7:37am
Thread Starter 
Yes, the name of the dish (plate), like tureen or ramekin.
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post #6 of 17
7/28/08 at 10:48am
The "Boneyard"
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post #7 of 17
7/28/08 at 1:28pm
Growing up we used to call it the kierkoff - no idea how to spell it. I think it's Flemish for graveyard.
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post #8 of 17
7/28/08 at 1:47pm
Thread Starter 
"Kerkhof" would be Dutch for graveyard ("church-yard" literally).

But the term I'm looking for was French, I'm surprised no one here knows it.
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post #9 of 17
7/28/08 at 2:11pm
AFAIK, there's no standardized term or serving piece. Now that AFAIK is a real limitation because my French is limited to recipe and table service vocabulary. On the other hand, that's the context. So, quien sabe?

Earlier, I wrote a fairly long post, but apparently it was taken down because the most common French word for the sort of bowl you see on a table begins, "a ess ess . . ." Perhaps the terms, a$$iette de coquillage, or a$$iette de coquilles ring a bell? Mais, non? Quel dommage.

A French word for a place where things are consigned with intent they be forgotten is oubliette. Was that it?

BDL
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post #10 of 17
7/28/08 at 4:07pm
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I don't think it was oubliette, and it wasn't the other ones because it was a single word. But thanks
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post #11 of 17
7/28/08 at 4:18pm
Cimetiere?
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post #12 of 17
7/28/08 at 4:38pm
a$$iette, basin, bassine, bol, bolee, coupe, ecuelle, jatte, sebile, terrine, vasque.

That's it. I'm out of French. That's every word I know, plus every word from the Oxford Franglaise dictionary for "bowl" of the sort that might be used for shells. I left out things like cuvette, bocal and sucrier which don't seem to fit the context.

A sebile is a beggars bowl -- which kind of makes sense. Kind of.

BDL
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post #13 of 17
12/12/10 at 5:51pm

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post #14 of 17
12/13/10 at 6:43am

There's no other place to dump shells in France, the US and everywhere else, than in la poubelle.

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post #15 of 17
12/13/10 at 7:27am

Although certainly not French, and not confined to shellfish shells, I kind of like Anne Burrel's term. She calls it her "thanks for coming" bowl.

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post #16 of 17
12/13/10 at 1:12pm

Translated to English, "la pubelle" is "New Jersey".
 

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There's no other place to dump shells in France, the US and everywhere else, than in la poubelle.

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post #17 of 17
12/13/10 at 1:27pm

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