Re: CHAT: IPA Question

Tristan scripsit:

> Find and chips at upscale prices at a restaurant? They aren't really
> fish and chips! Fish with chips, maybe, but not fish and chips... (And
> you don't have fish-and-chips stop chains, either.)
"Stop chains"?  Is that short for "truck-stop chains"?

> For the record, you're wrong by my definition, implying there is some
> sort of difference. There are many pizzas without meat, but a vegetarian
> pizza has the base, tomato sauce, cheese with capsicum, tomato,
> mushroom, olives and onion on top, and probably some more chees on top
> as well.
I don't know that "vegetarian pizza" has a strict definition here.
I would describe what you are talking about as one of many vegetarian,
or vegetable, pizzas. In any event, "vegetarians" unqualified might
or might not eat cheese at all.

> What you've described there would be closer to a just a pizza
> base, or a margherita, which has herbs on it as well.
Yes, these terms are known here and applicable to what I described.

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