Talk:Vol au vent

Votes for deletion
In June 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was to keep. See Votes for deletion/Vol au vent for a record of the discussion. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 15:17, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm removing the following unsourced bizarre statements:
 * Vol au vents were staples of somewhat twee house parties in the seventies and eighties, of the sort portrayed in Mike Leigh's play Abigail's Party. Nowadays, they still pop up from time to time, with earnest at corporate catering for buffets but also somewhat ironically at nostalgic parties.

Twee house parties? Is there any evidence that's true, or that it's any more true than any other sort of canapé?


 * The song "You're the one that I want" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John of the movie Grease has a chorus line which resembles "You are a vol-au-vent".

No, it really doesn't. Original research perhaps?

French translation
Also, the article still says vol au vent translates as "Flight in the wind" but the Spanish Wikipedia claims it means "flight without motor". Bablefish translate it as "flight with the wind". None of these seem very relevant anyway, so perhaps it should just be removed.

Angela. 06:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The translation is "flight of the wind". For one thing, it's french, not spanish. For another, "au" has no direct translation in English as its meaning varies with context, so Babelfish can't reliably translate that preposition. But in this case it means 'of'. CGameProgrammer 00:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge
This article and the article for canapé are both very small and closely related so I've decided to merge the two. If anyone strong disagrees it should be pretty easy to revert. Vicarious 05:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)