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[kerstin]

1
Is "fajita" the cooked minced meat in Tex-Mex food, if so does it already have salsa in it?

2
A "naked chicken burrito" = a non-breaded chicken burrito?

3.

What does "Exhibit A" mean? I have heard of it used so many times.

4
The company wants a someone who is able to work with group "dynamics".=spirits? Sorry it doens't really make sense to me.

5
Is "hero" a kind of food when it's on a menu? Is it like a roll?

6
The other day, I saw a sign outside a restauratn that read
Spaghetti
Meatball or Sausage "add".

Is the "add" used as a verb or a noun?

Thanks for being very helpful and supportive

[CP]

1.

2. Probably means a burrito with no sauce or anything else. I don't think the chicken in a burrito is usually breaded.

3. In a trial, each item of evidence is given an exhibit number (for plaintiff's exhibits) or letter (for defendant's exhibits). Of course you start with Exhibit 1 / Exhibit A. The evidence could be a written document, the murder weapon, a cast of a tire tread, or just about anything.

Exhibit A is often used to mean prime example. Good looking guys are usually pretty dull. Exhibit A: Brad Pitt.

4. Group dynamics are all those things that go on whenever you have a group of people together in a company, on a team, etc. There will be cooperation or competition, clicques and factions will form, some people will be energetic while others are loafers, etc.

5. A hero is a type of meat and produce sandwich on a French roll or a Kaiser roll. You can see some pictures if you Google Images "hero sandwich."

6. Probably used as a verb, meaning "add $X". Spaghetti is $3.00. With meatballs or sausage, add $1.00. Something like that.
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[bud]

1. I think it is more a style of dish - just like a burrito, enchilada, etc. is - rather than a reference to the ingredients. (For U.S. Mexican food, anyway.)

Fajitas usually are served in a frying pan, along with a stack of flour tortillas (I believe). The diner puts a tortilla on his plate, and then spoons some of the fajitas onto the tortilla, folds it up and then eats it. The meat can be anything, along with onions, tomatoes and the usual Mexican ingredients. For almost all Mexican dishes in the U.S., salsa, sour cream and guacamole are served on the side.

[iitimone7]

kerstin - the hero sandwich that you are referring to is spelled *gyro*, but pronounced as hero. many people pronounce the word jy-row, which is incorrect.

great job!! a gyro sandwich i think is a greek form of sandwich. the bread that is used looks like a small tortilla, but quite a bit thicker that opens like a pocket. the ingredients are pushed down inside the bread, which makes it a type of sandwich. if i knew how to add pictures on this, i would. look up the word *gyro* on google search.

great job, once again!! things that you hear are not always as they appear to be in reality. iitimone7

[CP]

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