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Well, katsu refers to a pork cutlet, which can be used with other dishes than curry. Katsudon is a pork cutlet on top of donburi, for example.
by Grue3 7y ago
Well, katsu refers to a pork cutlet, which can be used with other dishes than curry. Katsudon is a pork cutlet on top of donburi, for example.
- taneq 7y agoHuh, well that's my new thing I've learned today. I only ever heard it in conjunction with curry-type things (katsu chicken, which was always served with curry, for instance).
- uswjupiter 7y agoKatsu is just a japonization of the word Cuts. Chicken Katsu = Chicken Cuts
- misterdoubt 7y agoMind moderately blown.
- SECProto 7y agoNot quite. Katsu is from Cutlet. (cutlet -> カツレツ -> かつ).
- reaperducer 7y agoIsn't a cutlet a small cut? As in a small "cut of chicken" is a "chicken cutlet?"
- SECProto 7y agoVery possible that cutlet means small cut. I don't know the etymology of that word. I was just commenting on the etymology of かつ
- djur 7y agoIt's derived from French "côtelette", literally "little rib". It's etymologically related to "coast", actually. It being spelled "cutlet" is probably the result of a phonetic spelling of "côtelette" in English being reanalyzed as "cut-let", though, since "a cut of meat" is itself a thing. It originally referred to the same thing "chop" does today, a slice of meat perpendicular to the spine, containing a single rib. Then it started referring specifically to a boneless chop. Then it started being used to refer to any thin slice of meat. And in a lot of the world it was introduced specifically as a breaded and fried thin slice of meat. And that's how we got katsu, the Japanese version of schnitzel. Language is weird, isn't it?
- CaptainZapp 7y agoWell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkatsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkatsu
- autoexec 7y agoI like torikatsu better