Unappetizing food language in North American English
On Nov 14, 12:57*pm, Wayne Boatwright >
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> On Thu 13 Nov 2008 08:54:25p, Golden One told us...
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> > On Nov 14, 11:06*am, wrote:
> >> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:46:26 -0500, (Lass
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> >> Chance_2) wrote:
> >> >how about, "pork butt", "fat back", "cat head biscuit", "red-eye
> gravy",
> >> >and the most disgusting of all, "head cheese"?
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> >> >YUM!
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> >> >"scratch" and "tub" PALE by comparison to these!
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> >> >(I wish I had a pair of cat head biscuits with some red eye, right
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> >> >Lass
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> >> * * 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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> > What about Spotted Dick? The visualisation I get is not nice!
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> Well, actually, some are spotted. *I don’t know if that’s a pigmentation
> defect or not. hehehehe
I wasn't thinking of those kind of spots ;-)
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> Spotted Dick, the food, is actually delicious.
Yes I know. It is just the name that conjures up icky visualisations.
JB
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