On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: > >Also, the salt kethna that Vlad eats aboard ship in _Orca_ is >presumably salt pork. I have the distinct feeling that you could >match the Fenarian kethna dish(es) that get mentioned with >Hungarian pork dishes. In short, I agree with you and Mark. > FWIW, the english-hungarian dictionary does not appear to indicate that "pig" or "pork" translates to anything like "kethna" in hungarian. Which is not to say that that is what it means, only that it's not another sneaky hungarianism. Googling on the term, I see that it appears to be the name of a town in Estonia. Shrug. However, this is amusing: (Although kethna is another matter -- "tastes like kethna" is getting to be a generally used family expression.) http://marissa.gritter.dsg.stanford.edu/041903.html