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Cordon bleu is also a French meat dish (usually pork), layered like a sandwhich with prosciutto and cheese - way too filling for our modern tastes. But delicious.
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Welcome waterdoctor. You might want to add your approximate locaton to your profile as it is frequently helpful.
I've never heard of pork cordon bleu. It's always chicken cordon bleu around here. I wonder if the French actually eat it (fwiw, Wikipedia says it's a variation of schnitzel).
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I thought Schnitzel Cordon bleu was made from veal with cheese and ham.
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Till today I'd never heard cordon bleu used in any other way than " Côtelette cordon bleu à la Suisse". Pork cutlets filled with slices of ham and Gruyère cheese. (cutlets,so bone and all) Heavy indeed; invented for mountaineers, I suppose. I remember I had cordon bleu in Switzerland and the embarrassment of not being able to finish my plate. I think pork is the classical recipe, but since long cordon bleu is done with chicken fillets, veal, even fish and vegetarian variations. Seen the number of threads some Cordon-Coordination would be wished for , lest we get lost in cordon bleu. 
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I'm not sure that I've heard just "Cordon Bleu", it's usually prefaced with "Chicken", so perhaps that says something.
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Not necessarily. Would anyone offer you a serving of Diane with duchess? Or au vin? Some florentine with nicoise perhaps? Some Suzette or Melba to finish?
With "Search English pages" on:
"cordon bleu" chicken -pork = 210,000 ghits
"Chicken cordon bleu" = 190,000 ghits
"cordon bleu" pork -chicken = 14,000
"Pork cordon bleu" = 1240
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yeah, it looks as if it's usually prefaced with "Chicken".
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Regarding the mention of 'blue moon' involving a 'long period of time'. A blue moon, as I understand it, is a full moon coming in a month that already has had a full moon. This does not occur very often. Thus, the reference is not so much a 'long period of time', but rather rarity.
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the reference is not so much a 'long period of time', but rather rarity. I'm with you there, JCS. The phrase "once in a blue moon" does seem to indicate the period of time from one blue moon to the next which would lead to the shift in meaning. In present usage it refers to the second full moon in a month, but originally it was the third full moon in a quarter that had four full moons. In this case a quarter is defined as the period from an equinox to the following solstice or from a solstice to the following equinox.
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Regarding the mention of 'blue moon' involving a 'long period of time'. A blue moon, as I understand it, is a full moon coming in a month that already has had a full moon. This does not occur very often. Thus, the reference is not so much a 'long period of time', but rather rarity. well, that could be two ways of saying the same thing, depending on how you look at it. if it's a "long time" between occurrences, that could be considered rare, no? welcome, J!
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