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sampling

English translation: taste(r)

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English term or phrase:sampling
Selected answer:taste(r)
Entered by: sazo

22:11 Nov 22, 2012
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Cooking / Culinary
English term or phrase: sampling
In addition to tasty new soups, which are already a culinary icon on long-haul flights, the latest addition to the menu is our salad garnishes – a generous sampling of very high quality products, including partridge escabeche, marinated shrimp, salt cod confit, wheat salad, and many more.

I'm not sure I get the meaning of sampling right in this context.
Thanks.
sazo
Croatia
Local time: 22:23
taste(r)
Explanation:
This is essentially another term for garnish, and means enough to sample, i.e. taste or test. Alternative ways of putting it would be morsel, nibble, tidbit - but it is definitely less than a portion.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-11-22 23:28:05 GMT)
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Accompaniment is yet another option.
Selected response from:

Kate Collyer
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:23
Grading comment
Thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +3taste(r)
Kate Collyer
4 +3selection
Charles Davis
3helping
PoveyTrans (X)


Discussion entries: 5





  

Answers


46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
selection


Explanation:
This is how I understand it: a range of garnishes that constitute samples -- carefully chosen examples -- of high quality products. In other words, a selection.

"Sampling" as a noun is really a statistical term; it means "a set of individuals or items selected from a population for analysis to yield estimates of, or to test hypotheses about, parameters of the whole population" (Macmillan Dictionary). So the sense it implies is perhaps a representative selection.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 22:23
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kate Collyer: I think it unlikely that you'd get more than one of these per salad - we're not talking meze-style here. / It refers to soups plural too, but you wouldn't expect to get more than one!
5 mins
  -> But surely the "generous sampling" refers to the garnishes, plural: it doesn't mean what you put on one particular salad! // We're reading it differently; I take the sampling to be the range of garnishes; in your reading each garnish is a sampling.
agree  Veronika McLaren: I think the problem is with the word "garnishes" - many images shown under "salad garnishes" seem to refer to the entire salad, not just what is put on top as garnish.
38 mins
  -> That's another possibility. I think this is ambiguous; Kate and Simon have read it in a different sense, and they could be right. Thanks, Veronika :)
agree  Trudy Peters: I like "representative selection"
43 mins
  -> Many thank, Trudy :)
agree  Tina Vonhof (X): Small portions of salad with different garnishes, so you can have a taste of each.
2 hrs
  -> Possibly, though that's not how I first imagined it. It's ambiguous, I think. Thanks, Tina :)
neutral  Tony M: I share Kate's misgivings about this; I think 'sampling' is just a euphemism for 'small portion', which they then try to mitigate by saying the contradictory 'generous'; badly written!
8 hrs
  -> I've been wondering about this, and I suspect you (and Kate, and indeed Simon) may be right, and that it refers to a quantity of each garnish. "Portion" would be the word in that case, I agree
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58 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
helping


Explanation:
i think it just means a generous amount of the items listed

a generous helping is a stock phrase

which I think they've adapted to sampling because there are more than one items being offered.

PoveyTrans (X)
Local time: 21:23
Native speaker of: English
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, Simon.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kate Collyer: A generous helping is quite a lot - a greater than or equal amount of it compared to the salad, which is not what "garnishes" implies.
16 mins
neutral  Tony M: Agree with Kate: I feel sure they used 'sampling' to avoid saying 'helping', as it's so skimpy! 'Generous sampling' sounds better than 'meagre portion'.
7 hrs
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
taste(r)


Explanation:
This is essentially another term for garnish, and means enough to sample, i.e. taste or test. Alternative ways of putting it would be morsel, nibble, tidbit - but it is definitely less than a portion.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-11-22 23:28:05 GMT)
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Accompaniment is yet another option.

Kate Collyer
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
Grading comment
Thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, I think they're trying to say that these are 'sampling-size' portions (just enough to give you a taste), but then trying to make up for that by saying 'generous'; so it's smaller than a 'portion', but bigger than just a taste!
8 hrs
  -> Thanks Tony!
agree  Charles Davis: On further reflection, this is at the very least a viable reading, and perhaps more likely than mine :)
9 hrs
  -> Thanks Charles!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
13 hrs
  -> Thanks gallagy2!
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