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all-dressed

< French toute garnie

DCHP-2 (Sep 2016)

1adj. — Food, predominantly Quebec

all the standard, free garnishes and condiments for some foods such as pizzas, hamburgers or hot dogs.

Type: 1. Origin — Internationally, the term is still almost uniquely used in Canada (see Chart 1), but shows an interesting regional distribution within Canada. The term is a literal translation of a French term (toute garnie) and is most frequent in Quebec English, Eastern Ontario and Saskatechewan (the latter of which is a bit of a mystery) (Boberg 2005: 38, 43). The term is most frequently used in the province of Quebec (92 percent of the time when referring to pizza), particularly in Montreal (96 percent with pizza). Canada outside Quebec only uses all-dressed with pizza a mere 8 percent of the time (see Boberg 2012: 500), employing instead terms such as "deluxe" (parts of western Canada and Ontario), or "the works" (Atlantic Canada) or "everything-on-it" (some Toronto speakers) (Boberg 2005: 43). Chart 2 shows a regional distribution based on internet domain names. The term is also applied to garnishes on hamburgers and hot dogs, though to a lesser degree outside of Quebec.
See also COD-2, s.v. "all-dressed", which is marked "Cdn (Que., NB, & E Ont.)".

Quotations

1974

Hmmm. A puck something along the lines of an all-dressed pizza maybe... so large it'll take two linesmen to lift it.

1980

IF YOU'RE A regular customer of Pizza Pizza, a restaurant chain with 34 branches in the Toronto area, you probably know about the company's new computerized system for home delivery. The clerk punches in your phone number and out pops your name and your address. Even the kind of pizza you usually order - medium, all-dressed, no anchovies - is filed away.

1985

"The hamburger all dressed with a medium Coke for $1.98," says lunch counter manager Lena Miskimin, 55, a Woolworth's employee for the past 20 years.

1985

It features some other typical Quebec specialities, such as the Hot Dog-Frit, an all-dressed hot dog with french fries on top. But my favorite is the Hot Cat. Hot Cat is a derivative of that old Eastern Townships standby from the 1950s, the guedille, which is an all-dressed hot dog without the wiener. It's also known as a Hot Dog Catholique, eaten, as should be obvious, on Fridays.

1995

So in English-speaking Montreal one orders one's hot dogs all-dressed. Now the odd thing is that even though this phrase is a translation from the French it has made its way back into French. I have been in 100-per-cent French establishments and been asked: "Voulez-vous votre pizza all-dressed?'' (In French it sounds like "awl drraysse.'') I wonder if it will get re-borrowed back into English

1998

SURE, YOU CAN get 'em all-dressed, Hawaiian-style, con carne, al funghi, or plain old pepperoni, but what's the hottest thing coming out of a pizza box in Moncton this Saturday? Art. That's right, art. You know, food for the soul. Mozza for the imagination.

2013

How authentic is that vodkasauced penne or all-dressed pizza? Not a bit, for, despite the copious amounts of Italian food on offer, little comes close to the Italian cuisine of the motherland. In Montreal, authentic Italian restaurants are rare.

2adj. — Food

a flavour of potato chip, usually in the compound all-dressed chips (see Image 1).

Type: 3. Semantic Change — In contrast to meaning 1, this term is used across Canada, but in no other country.

Quotations

1990

Unless he or she has pretty persuasive excuses for not being capable of it, a middle-years kid is expected to be able to: ride a bike; skip a rope; be good at swimming-pool cannonballs, running, ad hoc wrestling and Nintendo; blow gum bubbles; know the plot premises of at least 17 afterschool and Saturday-morning cartoon shows; have a minimum of four different smartass comebacks that can be made out loud in the schoolyard or (quietly, in a mutter) to teachers and parents; know the lyrics to a couple of gross and disgusting songs; and be capable of consuming vast quantities of all-dressed-pizza-flavored potato chips, soda-pop Skittles and Slimer ghost gum.

1996

The credibility of this approach starts to crumble when I include the fatigue factor which is a natural by-product of unlimited access to a desired foodstuff. All-dressed chips, for example, reached the pinnacle of seductiveness during periods of acute scarcity.

2002

Hostess Frito-Lay is voluntarily recalling 255g packages of Ruffles All Dressed chips sold in P.E.I.

2005

However, if the other guy is wearing a suit that looks like it might have fit him in Grade 9, has a gap in his shirt where several buttons have popped off because of the beer belly, and is munching on a family pack of Lays all-dressed chips and wiping his fingers in his shirt, he is probably not the sporty guy.

2007

While McGuinty said he's not a fan of junk foods, he admitted he does like to chow down on a bag of "all-dressed'' chips on occasion.

2015

Stores should have Storm Chips back in stock by the weekend, he said. The four popular flavours in one bag is the company's take on an all-dressed flavour.