My mother oftens wears her muu muu when eating fru-fru.

I am totally confused by this thread. There is fussy and fru fru with fru fru having now been defined as former pesant dishes now adorned with caviar or truffles.

Fussy means no pork which means that Orthodox Jews and practicing Muslims are fussy. At least they something in common now.

Then something is not fu fu or fru fru if written in English. So the same ingredients would make the dish fru fru or fu fu if written in French, no qualifications were given for Sanskrit.

Then a few posters recite the specials of day including all the ingedients but forget to tell you the price. This would be a breach of etiquette in English and a faux pas in French making in wrong only on the continent.

I am going to sleep this all to tiring.

wearing a muu muu when eating fru-fru is a nu nu. :D

i say fufu all the time, just not around a samoan. i'd like to see my next birthday.

So this dish is "totally frou-frou":

Potato Blini, Salmon Tartar and Caviar

What about "chopped smoked salmon with potato pancakes garnished with caviar"?

Is that just as frou-frou? Is it the wording that bothers you or the dish itself? I'm really curious about that?

If filet mignon surrounded with fresh vegetables OK, but "chateaubriand" frou-frou?

OK, Juldie, I withdraw my half-hearted defense of you. Sorry, dear, you're nuttier than a macadamia crusted cod.

Just because something is described in French does not make it frou-frou, my little cabbage (en francais, "mon petit chou"). The potato blini were a staple comfort food for me when I was a child, yes, with the salmon roe, and there is nothing frou frou about them. They are a very basic Russian dish. And a poached egg with truffles, which are, after all, just mushrooms, albeit ones that hide and are hard to dig up, isn't frou frou, either.

If your problem is with the French language, just avoid French restaurants and all will be well, cherie.