Legend has it that King Charles II loved a certain cut of steak so much that he dubbed it "Sir Loin", and that's how sirloin steaks got the name. Actually, sirloin comes from the Middle French word for the steak, surlong. Eventually surlong evolved into surloin, and in the eighteenth century emerged as sirloin.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
I dub thee Sir Loin...
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