When is it "homemade"?

I was listening to Glen Beck this AM on the way to work. I got caught up in one of his stealth ads before I could change the station.

He started going on and on about his Italian Mother in Law's homemade sauce, and then he moved on to a restaurant that has homemade stuff,,,,,everything from scratch every day. I was thinking to myself, how can a restaurant afford to advertise on a national show?

Well after going on and on about C....., he says to visit "any of their locations..." So C.... is a chain, and what qualifies it as homemade? Is everything cooked from scratch, in the restaurant, everyday, or is everything cooked, from scratch, everyday, but at a central commissary? Inquiring minds want to know.....

Call me silly, but I sort of believe that if something isn't made in the home it's not homemade. If it's made from scratch in a restaurant I hope it's good, but it's not homemade.

I agree. It could be called home-style, but not home-made.

We passed a shop in Wisconsin a few years ago that had a sign that said 'Ho-Made Pies.'

So who made THOSE?

Y'all really pushed my HOT button. Just last week I was at a restaurant in Davenport, IA that said right on its menu that its mashed potatoes were home-made. However, when the potatoes arrived, they had the tell-tale cardboardy taste of the instant ones. Oooooohhh, was I steamed!

When I told the waitress that the potatoes were not home-made, she only offered to bring me something else.

Technically us chefs cannot use the word homemade when writing menus. Because it wasn't made in YOUR home! I never had the need to say anything similar because everything was made fresh every day and the customers knew it....they're not dumb, they can tell!

Well, if you heard it on a Clear Channel show, it must be true. Everything on Clear Channel is true, isn't it? Or is that the "Fair and Balanced" one...sometimes I get them mixed up...they sound so similar.

I thought it was the internet that was all true. You mean some of the stuff I read here might not be true?

I personally dont mind a restaurant using the term homemade, if they in fact did make it themselves from scratch (as many mom and pop diners do).. But when I see an ad in the paper for a local grocery store advertising 'homemade', when I damn well know the stuff came out of a bag or box really irks me...

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Originally posted by Pwingsx

I agree. It could be called home-style, but not home-made.

We passed a shop in Wisconsin a few years ago that had a sign that said 'Ho-Made Pies.'

So who made THOSE?

I think it's a wonderful thing that restaurant was doing, helping to rehabilitate those wayward women from their hard life of drugs and s-x.

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Pwingsx Posted - 10/13/2005 : 14:55:55
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We passed a shop in Wisconsin a few years ago that had a sign that said 'Ho-Made Pies.'

I just bet those were Sweet Potato pies .......................