Dennis's blog

Ahhh, excellent points all! Even the word itself demonstrates the argument. Meringue is derived from the French word "meringue" which means "to fluff," as in "the maid meringued up the down comforter." The original word of course is from the Latin, "heringue," which means to speak loudly and incessantly in trying to get someone to do something. As in, "Mom kept heringueing me to clean my room." Towards the 5th century A.D. the Romans, knowing they were nearing the end of their civilization as they knew it, subtley changed the use of this word. Where as "heringuer" used to mean one who "herigues," which in fact it still did, now (late 5th century), however, it could also be used to describe a large garage-like structure for storing an airplane. In turn, one who actually stored the airplane in the "heringuer" would be referred to as a "heringuerer." So this, once again, proves the point about avoiding whipped cream like the plague. Look what happened to all those Europeans.