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Default Unappetizing food language in North American English
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:46:26 -0500, (Lass
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>how about, "pork butt", "fat back", "cat head biscuit", "red-eye gravy",
>and the most disgusting of all, "head cheese"?
>
>YUM!
>
>"scratch" and "tub" PALE by comparison to these!
>
>(I wish I had a pair of cat head biscuits with some red eye, right
>now...)
>
>Lass

How about some good old British (Royal Navy) standbys, like
Spotted Dog, Boiled Baby, Lobscouse, Portable Soup, Figgy-Dowdy,
and Syllabub?
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