Originally Posted by
emma69
My Brit friends call it a Spanish omelette (the more common spelling there, but from the same origin), but I suspect that is equally wrong too, as omelette / omelet is a French word for an egg dish - no different from frittata in Italian!
Spanish omelette/omelet is also perfectly acceptable. The only danger is that some Britons still think of Spanish omelet as something you make with a packet of frozen mixed vegetables, that, or the leftovers scooped out from around the kitchen sink plug hole (always tasted that way to me
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