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[edit] Fine line or blurry line?

From the article:

The line between stew and soup is a fine one, but generally a stew's ingredients are cut in larger pieces, and a stew is more likely to be eaten as a main course than as a starter.

Is "blurry" meant here, rather than "fine"? They're not what I'd call synonyms. --Ihope127 19:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

A "fine line" indicates difficulty in defining a definite boundary Got Lag? 13:35, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] "Particularly potatoes and beans"

In the USA maybe (and even then specifically the Midwest?). Nowhere else. In fact, most European casseroles and stews don't use green beans (and the only soup that does is Minestrone where it isn't important what the ingredients really are) and many require potatoes be served separately - if at all - as they can cause the broth to off quicker if included. I would have thought onion, carrot and celery be a more common component. Plutonium27 12:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fruits vs. vegetables

The article makes the differentiation, then lists beans as vegetables and tomatoes as fruits. If one is a fruit, so is the other. See Fruit. CarlFink 20:43, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Stewing into this article

I think this merge is a great idea. It seems obviously necessary. Let's merge Stewing into this article. -- Lilwik (talk) 01:21, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, that's four in favor and no arguments against. If nobody objects by the weekend, I'll do the merge. FiveRings (talk) 03:12, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Stew" - other definitions

Odd that there's no disambiguation page for "Stew" - sometimes "stewe" - as it can also mean (archaically meant) a tavern, an bathhouse or sometimes even a brothel. Try here: http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH36/browner1.html and note the usage of the word. Or here: http://www.prostitutionprocon.org/history.htm / http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/uhr/023587.shtml where it is also referenced.
There are even books, e.g. - Bernard Mandeville's " "A Modest Defence of Publick Stews": Prostitution and Its Discontents in Early Georgian England" ( http://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Mandevilles-Modest-Defence-Publick/dp/1403971676 ) where the concept of a "public stew" is covered. The "stew" is mentioned in "Measure for Measure" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_for_measure for those Wikipedians that only believe something exists if it's mentioned here), and this is discussed here: http://www.rsc.org.uk/measure/teachers/themes.html , where there's even some kind of dictionary definition: Stew 1. A heated room used for hot air or vapour baths: hence, a hot bath. 2.pl. A brothel (Developed from sense 1, on account of the frequent use of the public hot baths for immoral purposes.) Hist. late ME (sing. and pl.) A bawd or prostitute - 1650. [Shorter OED].

This other definition of "stew" is, surprise surprise, not here > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stew either. I guess it's not really that odd that this is not mentioned in Wikipedia, as it is often so unreliable (and has such a heavy American bias) round here that often the only response I can muster to the site is general hilarity. Cheers!


Forgot to "sign" the above. Here's your tildes 86.151.125.250 (talk) 23:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)