Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
chocolat liégeois
English translation:
chocolat liégeois
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French term
chocolat liégeois
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odile guiomar
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| 4 -1 | chocolate liegeois (ice cream) |
Diana Huet de Guerville
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| 3 -2 | chocolate ice-cream from Liège |
Jean-Claude Gouin
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Sep 22, 2013 06:47: Marion Feildel (X) changed "Language pair" from "English to French" to "French to English"
Sep 22, 2013 07:00: Anne Carnot changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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Proposed translations
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Native in: French
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
chocolat liégeois
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Note added at 1 heure (2013-09-22 08:24:59 GMT)
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Chocolat liegeois is in English same as in French, as this is a kind of "brand" for this dessert,
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Tony M
: Yes, and I do prefer the spelling 'liégois', even in EN.
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roneill
: Absolutely
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Louisa Tchaicha
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Environmental translations
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
chocolate liegeois (ice cream)
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-09-22 08:51:50 GMT)
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PS: I misspelled my entry which should have been "chocolat" (no e).
So I would either keep the French with no reference to ice cream (my tendency would be to remove the accent but you could also leave it), or potentially even translate it as coffee or hot chocolate with whipped cream (see wikipedia entry for example), since it seems to be referring to the coffee as well - otherwise 8 euros is quite a lot for a regular coffee! Ultimately it depends on what the client is looking for: do they want to seem "chic" or do they want the customer to immediately know what they're talking about! The problem with this term as opposed to crême brulée is that it's not nearly as well known (IMO). Your call!
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merlrennes
: Chocolat Liegeois is NOT necessarily ice cream: See: http://www.cuisineaz.com/recettes/chocolat-liegeois-54528.as...
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true, though the traditional version comes with ice cream, I suppose that given that it's listed along with coffee it could just essentially be hot chocolate with whipped cream.
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writeaway
: it's a sundae, not an ice cream flavour.
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Canada
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Native in: French 
Works in: French to English, English to French, French, and 1 more.
chocolate ice-cream from Liège
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writeaway
: that's not what it is at all. it's either made with chocolate creme or with chocolate ice cream. if it's made with ice cream, it's a chocolate version of a dame blanche.
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Tony M
: I can only echo what W/A has said, J-C — that wouldn't be an accurate description of whatever it is, however one looks at it.
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Discussion
I agree with you, though, that if it existed in chocolate, it would be likely to be basically the same thing. Personally, I've not encountered that — though I've spent very little time actually in Belgium.
However, do note that it can often be a dessert with ice cream, but can also be a coffee or hot chocolate with whipped cream; in some FR restaurants, they call the dessert with ice-cream 'café liégeois' and the coffee with whipped cream 'café viennois' (which is often mis-named a 'cappuccino'!)
All that to say that merlrennes is probably wise to say 'don't specify ice-cream', just in case it isn't!
My Belgian chef friend makes a 'genuine' Liège coffee which is quite different again...
And on the subject of mis-translated menus, I got so hysterical one day in a Lisieux restaurant that the manager came over to see if I was alright, as among other howlers, we had 'andouille tranchée' translated as 'sliced twerp'!
et crème brulée pareil on ne change pas, ça reste pareil en anglais et en français, ce sont pratiquement des "marques". on ne traduit donc pas.
Et pourquoi ne pas dire "chocolate of liege" ?