4 Comments

• RM on November 29, 2008

  I actually don’t remember what kind of manchego it was, if it even said :( It was the Whole Foods standard, I think it might just say something generic like “spanish manchego” and the price. Still tasty though!

• Diana on November 30, 2008

  Can your roommate help me figure out how to pronounce Manchego too? Is it Man-chay-go? I always feel like I am saying it wrong!

• RM on November 30, 2008

  There’s never a consensus on how to pronounce foreign words in the US. It’s an issue that causes me a lot of stress in restaurants actually because I don’t want to be the pretentious ass who slips into a crazy accent in the middle of a sentence, but I also don’t want to be the ignorant American dope who orders “Queez-A-DILL-uhs” at the Taco Bell drivethrough… In fact, I was once mocked by a waitress at an upscale Italian restaurant for pronouncing bruschetta the correct way, and then corrected a week later by a different waitress for saying it the ‘American’ way. You really can’t win.

  However, manchego is generally pronounced man-chay-go in the US though in Spain they pronounce the “man” more like the “mon” in monterrey.

• Diana on December 1, 2008

  I totally worry about sounding pretentious when I say bruschetta how it’s supposed to be pronounced! Of course, I do sort of say it with a bit of an accent. I can’t help it! It just comes out!