On Nov 12, 9:24*am, maxine in ri > wrote:
> On Nov 12, 11:27*am, " >
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> > I find North American English, with its propensity for inverting
> > syntactically sound expressions and creating verbs out of sows' ears
> > (to Christmas shop, to grocery shop, etc.), has produced some rather
> > unappetizing terms for food usually as some sort of abbreviation. *A
> > few came up recently and I thought I'd start a thread on this, as a
> > form of recreation (because this is after all a rec.* newsgroup).
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> > NOTE: I specifically said North American as this aberration can also
> > be found in parts of Canada.
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> > So here are a few:
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> > "from scratch", or worse "scratch" (as in "scratch cake"...oy, the
> > mental image of cake made from flaky dead skin or dandruff)
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> > "tub" as in "tub of margarine" or yogurt, or worse "tub butter". *What
> > the hell is "tub butter" and who would want any? *The word "tub"
> > conjures up the idea of a large receptacle in which people bathe and
> > lose their dead skin, floating in soapy water...again with the dead
> > skin image.
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> > "tablespread" or the use of "spread" to mean a soft substance...I'm
> > not even going there.
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> Comes from that great kid song which most of us were privy to during
> our formative years:
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> Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
> mutilated monkey meat
> little birdie's bloody feet
> One half pint of all purpose porpoise pus
> floating in grade A blood,
> and me without a spooooon!
> *(there are variations; *my DH from NJ has a somewhat different
> version)
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> maxine in ri
> repository of many many many songs of similar caliber- Hide quoted text -
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"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
the worms play pee- knuckle on your snout"
Like my phonetic spelling?