http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/poshnosh/

The very funny little show above, and the silly business name below.

http://www.posh-nosh.co.uk/

What were they thinking?
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"modom (palindrome guy)" > wrote in
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>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/poshnosh/
>
> The very funny little show above, and the silly business name below.
>
> http://www.posh-nosh.co.uk/
>
> What were they thinking?
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> modom
>

posh (port out starboard home) a slang word for luxurious if sailing to
India.
nosh is like a small meal or a nibble or a taste or eat.


Just as funny as the name Good Eats. TV show, Restaurants and catering
businesses have that name.

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hahabogus wrote:

> posh (port out starboard home) a slang word for luxurious if sailing to
> India.

That derivation is disputed.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pos1.htm


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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:58:38 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:

>"modom (palindrome guy)" > wrote in
:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/poshnosh/
>>
>> The very funny little show above, and the silly business name below.
>>
>> http://www.posh-nosh.co.uk/
>>
>> What were they thinking?
>
>posh (port out starboard home) a slang word for luxurious if sailing to
>India.
>nosh is like a small meal or a nibble or a taste or eat.
>
>Just as funny as the name Good Eats. TV show, Restaurants and catering
>businesses have that name.

The BBC comedy is a series of very short programs my local PBS station
uses to fill in the hour on weekends when for one reason or another
the feature program runs short. It's a spoof of high-end cooking
featuring Minty Marchmont, who married up, and Simon Marchmont who
likes his tennis instructor's pectorals more than Minty's mammaries,
if you get my meaning. Minty always cooks in her Aga, and if you
don't have one, she isn't certain why you even try to cook. She
frequently misuses verbs in her instructions, telling us, for example,
to "embarrass" the green beans in butter till they're nearly soft. He
says things like "Cooking really upsets food." He likes his wine. A
lot. He's also an impossible snob. One episode has them preparing
fresh leftovers (making something new and trying to make it look like
leftovers) for an impromptu lunch with the bishop. Simon also likes
the bishop. A lot. The shows generally end with a plug for a Posh
Nosh food item you can purchase for home consumption. Fresh monkfish
marmalade with caramelized Provencal shallots and capers was one such
offering.

With a nearly perfect send up of snobbish dining associated with the
title Posh Nosh, it struck me as funny that a real catering service
would also choose to use the name.
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Blinky wrote on 20 Jul 2007 20:22:04 GMT:

??>> posh (port out starboard home) a slang word for luxurious
??>> if sailing to India.

BtS> That derivation is disputed.

BtS> http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pos1.htm

I don't find myself convinced by prosaic derivations of things
like posh. I suspect Dante would have had a special place in his
Inferno for debunkers of good apochryphal stories. I am still
convinced that Wohler named barbiturates after his girlfriend
Barbara despite professors who feel that is not dignified!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not