very dumb question - marinara sauce

[Mouseketeer1974]

I've been looking at kids menus for DDs 8 & 6 ahead of our trip in August.

Most pasta dishes come with Marinara Sauce.

Am in correst to assume that this will include fish?

 

[crashbb]

Marinara sauce is just tomato sauce (at least in North America). Unless the entree is fish, there is no reason to think that fish is included with the pasta.

 

[TDC Nala]

Do you want to know if the marinara sauce contains fish (it doesn't at WDW usually - with the kids meals that means tomato sauce), or if the fish is served with marinara sauce?

 

[Mouseketeer1974]

thanks! that's quite a relief - my girls aren't big fish fans but will eat a tomatos / onion / herb / garlic sauce all day long.
the word "marinara" is a little misleading as it implies "mariner / sea / fish" and wikipedia was not too clear!

 

[minnie mum]

Not sure why you would consider the name "marinara" misleading. It is the common culinary name for the common tomato/basil/ garlic/ onion sauce that is ubiquitous in North American Italian restaurants. It is found in every dictionary I've ever seen. But then I seldom use Wikipedia as a reliable source for anything.

 

[Mickeyrella]

Not sure why you would consider the name "marinara" misleading. It is the common culinary name for the common tomato/basil/ garlic/ onion sauce that is ubiquitous in North American Italian restaurants. It is found in every dictionary I've ever seen. But then I seldom use Wikipedia as a reliable source for anything.

No need to be rude, people learn something new everyday.

 

[Mouseketeer1974]

Thanks Mickeyrella.

Possibly my lack of understanding relates to the fact that I am British and the word has a different meaning in the UK.

Tough crowd some days... I hope I wouldn't be so quick to assume any level of knowledge if someone asked me a question.

 

[cz4ever]

Thanks Mickeyrella.

Possibly my lack of understanding relates to the fact that I am British and the word has a different meaning in the UK.

Tough crowd some days... I hope I wouldn't be so quick to assume any level of knowledge if someone asked me a question.

To ward off other possible US-UK naming confusion with respect to Italian sauces, let me assure you that bolognese sauce contains no bologna (or baloney)!

Oddly, the wikipedia entry for marinara sauce does include, "... and sometimes seafood." Never in my experience, but wikipedia is never wrong.

 

[crashbb]

Thanks Mickeyrella.

Possibly my lack of understanding relates to the fact that I am British and the word has a different meaning in the UK.

Tough crowd some days... I hope I wouldn't be so quick to assume any level of knowledge if someone asked me a question.

Don't worry. Most people would know that it is just a tomato sauce, because that it how it used here. However, if you had actually looked it up in the dictionary, you'd see that the root of the word is from the phrase "sailor style", so your thought really isn't laughable.

 

[Mouseketeer1974]

thanks people, if you ever need to understand a UK phrase, you know where I am

 

[MYD714]

Thanks Mickeyrella.

Possibly my lack of understanding relates to the fact that I am British and the word has a different meaning in the UK.

Tough crowd some days... I hope I wouldn't be so quick to assume any level of knowledge if someone asked me a question.

thanks people, if you ever need to understand a UK phrase, you know where I am

I think your question was very valid.

DH and I took a trip to Dublin, London, and Paris this April, and I could have used some help in figuring out a few things I didn't know.

For example, we were eating lunch at Temple Bar in Dublin when DH had to ask our server what it meant that his sandwich had 'rocket' on it. We had no clue that it was lettuce; we'd never heard of rocket. The server was really kind and seemed a bit amused by our lack of understanding.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I've never had marinara with seafood in it. It never even occurred to me that the word was related to marine.

 

[TDC Nala]

DH had to ask our server what it meant that his sandwich had 'rocket' on it. We had no clue that it was lettuce; we'd never heard of rocket.

Here, that type of lettuce goes by the name "arugula"

 

[MYD714]

Here, that type of lettuce goes by the name "arugula"

Yup We'd only ever called it arugula. I had no clue that others called it rocket...which BTW is a much better name than arugula.

 

[Fastpassme]

Imagine my surprise when I ordered pasta with a marinara sauce for my somewhat picky 8 year old in a restaurant in Sicily and they brought him a huge dish of spaghetti with mussels, clams and creepy octopus tentacles in a clearish broth I had to trade him my eggplant pasta and he picked out all the yummy eggplant. I sooo wish I took a picture of them setting that down in front of him.

 

[Sparkly]

I also had no clue what marinara sauce was because of being from England. Not a stupid question!

 

[Ro Z]

We should never be afraid to ask a question. Otherwise how would we learn? I am feeling very philosophical tonite. Heeehehheh! Lighten up people!

 

[MystikaFaith]

Not a silly question given the context. My British friends are constantly leaving me dumbfounded when they talk about some of the things they eat. For awhile there I thought all British people flavored their water with zucchini abstract! Turns out my assumption of what "squash" was was WAY wrong! Oops!

 

[KrazeeK120]

OP - you shouldn't have titled the thread "very dumb question"!!

You're from outside the US...it's not dumb to not know what some of our words mean.

But I can assure you that "marinara" as used in the US has no seafood in it. It's usually kind of like pizza sauce, only thicker. Hope that helps.

And, having lived in the US my whole life, never noticed that it contained the word "marina." I can see how that would be confusing to someone unfamiliar with the word.

 

[GillianP1301]

Not a dumb question at all given the origins of the word marinara. I have always wondered how a simple tomato sauce got that name and thanks to this thread, I now know, thanks to a quick google search that found this:

Name
The name marinara comes from the Italian word "marinaro," which means "seafaring" or "sailor."

Origin
This simple red sauce was first made for 16th century Italian sailors in Naples upon their return from a voyage at sea.