Arpa Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 La VacheOnly In Armenia Some of us may be familiar with that French cheese La Vache Qui Rit (The Laughing Cow). Some believe that the name may have derived from this;----"On the 16th of April 1921, Leon Bel registered the trade name La Vache Qui Rit (the Laughing Cow), and the full length drawing of a cow "with a hilarious grin on its face", which he himself based on Benjamin Rabier's drawing, emblem for the "bus supplying fresh meat for the troops" during the Great War. This emblem was nicknamed "La Wachkyrie"."---I found the following by John Hughes hilarious, entertaining yet very typical. It reminded me of stories like when some years ago several NY fire departemnts were dispatched to a luxury apartment only to find that the smoke was from a fire made of newspapers and old magazines. The African diplomat's wife not being familiar with the modern kitchen gadgets had made a fire in the middle of the apartment to prepare the evening meal. Only in America, you say? Look what happens in Armenia. Another story was that this Moslem pilgrim on a flight to Mecca had fired up his kerosene burner to make tea.John Hughes should be grateful that the lady did not start the charcoal pit to make "lavash khorovats".What? "lavash khorovats"?Yes! "lavash khorovats".It turns out that the Armenian delicacy known as "lavash"(hats/bread) is in fact a variation of "losh". How you say? Simple! The original word was "lavsh" or "laush". (remember that before we had the letter O we used ayb-hyun to produce the sound. Just like the Latin "au" as in "auto"**. In time the lyun-ayb-hyun-sha ended upt being pronounced as "lavsh" rather than "losh" as it was intended. Further down the "lavsh" ended up as "lavash". Lavash Khorovats? What is losh khorovats anyway? Does it refer to the meat or the bread? ** If ayb-hyun is supposed to sound like O then why do we say "avtomeqena" and not "otomeqena"? http://www.armenianow.com/2003/august15/outsideeye/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted April 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 (edited) Is this how lavash is made in Glendale and Fresno? :) Indomitable Armenian ingenuity at work. http://www.agbu.org/agbunews/display.asp?A_ID=143 Edited April 30, 2004 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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