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"Goomba" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
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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)
>>
>> "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.
>>
>> "tablespread" or the use of "spread" to mean a soft substance...I'm
>> not even going there.
>>
> Well.. you could have an English "fry up" breakfast. Doesn't that sound
> good?
> And then there are those "bangers and mash" meals....or "mixed grill"

I can't think of "bubble and squeak" without picturing a sucking chest
wound.