Attn Colby Garrelts: Here’s your new name for the amuse bouche

When local chefs have questions, Fat City has answers. Chef Colby Garrelts of Bluestem posted the following to his Twitter account yesterday:
 

I hate the term / word / name amuse bouche…..It’s a passe and I’m not french 😀 Any suggestions for a new name? I know, tough one!

The amuse bouche is the small bite of food a chef might send to your table shortly after you sit down, as a welcome and a sign of the meal to follow. The morsel or spoonful tends to be an interesting combination of seasonal ingredients that will make you step outside your culinary comfort zone for a minute. 

In the interest of keeping Garrelts happy — because if we learned anything from No Reservations or Ratatouille, it’s that a happy chef is the key to producing great food — Fat City’s suggestions are after the jump.