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Default Unappetizing food language in North American English

On Thu 13 Nov 2008 08:54:25p, Golden One told us...

> On Nov 14, 11:06*am, wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:46:26 -0500, (Lass
>>
>> Chance_2) wrote:
>> >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?

>
> What about Spotted Dick? The visualisation I get is not nice!


Well, actually, some are spotted. I don’t know if that’s a pigmentation
defect or not. hehehehe

Spotted Dick, the food, is actually delicious.

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