Entries tagged with 'language'
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With the help of the Talk community and some other friends, we've put together a menu of foods word-playing off the Academy Award categories. Yeah, some of them are pretty bad. Films Frosted Flakes/Nixon Mr. Frosty/Nixon The Curious Case of Benjamin Mutton The Curious Case of Beignet Button Corndog (or Chili Dog, or just plain Hot Dog) Millionaire Grand Panino Flan Torino GuacaWall-E Revolutionary Rolls The Reader.. (uh, this one is too hard; ergo, should not win award) Milk (go crazy here) Actors/Directors Kate Wing-lets Ann Hath-fillet Frank Lan-jello Gus Van Sant-wiches Marisa Tomei-to Soup Frieda Pinto Beans Amy Adams Apple Mickey Pork Brad Pitted Prunes Eggplant Parma-Sean Penn Related: The Brooklyn Kitchen's Oscars Menu...
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Photograph from marc.benton on Flickr One way to lose weight is to avoid food purveyors that willingly commit misspellings. See ya, Krispy Kreme. According to this MSNBC report, Angela Nickerson is so annoyed by the Ks, she won't patronize the doughnut chain. If you really want to shave the calories, cut out all restaurants or businesses using unnecessary quotations, too. The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks has been famously policing the bad grammar scene for years now. If you've read the "menus" or "sandwich boards" of the restaurants you frequent, it won't "surprise" you that a number of eateries get their "knuckles" rapped....
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Addictionary is a user-generated “dictionary” of fabricated words. As you'd expect, there are some food-related among the entries. There are plenty more, but I liked these: axiyum: (noun) A food that is widely accepted for it’s scrumptious attributes and healing power. Usage: It is a universally known axiyum that apple pie and ice cream is the best cure for depression.gorfu: (noun) Any generalized, unidentifiable oriental food, usually served raw or in neatly spaced cubes. Usage: We are having another course of “gorfu”, aren’t we?insalt: (verb) To add salt to a gourmet dish without tasting it first. Usage: Ned insalted the chef when he covered his perfect croquettes with a down pour of sea salt.supperfluous: (adjective) A meal, usually evening...
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Photograph from food_in_mouth on Flickr Hot beverage poetry doesn't get enough respect. The above example inspired me to write my own 5-7-5 metrical ode to hot chocolate: once just a powder but hot liquids transform you, brown winter mustache Let's see what you've got, fellow haikuists. Related A Poem: Fast Food Smell 2005 Pizza Haiku Entries [Slice] Food Poems [Talk]...
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The term, that is, not the actual establishments. From Nicholas Lander of the Financial Times: Over the past few weeks, as I have watched the most recent openings, read the latest press releases and talked to restaurateurs, I have been increasingly aware that 2008 may see the end of nothing other than the restaurant. By this, I hasten to add, I mean not the restaurant as an institution, but the name. Restaurateurs appear to be doing everything to avoid calling their new openings restaurants. [...]Various reasons explain this. One is that the word "restaurant" is associated with expense. Another is the inexorable march towards the “café society” we all seem so comfortable in, where our working lives dictate that...
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Oh, two of my interests combined—word nerdery and the food world. Amuse-Biatch catches spelling errors on Top Chef. Couli instead of coulis and Jean-George Vongerichten instead of Jean-Georges. Yes, word nerds really do get excited about very minor things. See if you can spot any typos as you watch tonight. [via Eater]...
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Photograph from t1mmyb on Flickr At the bakery/cafe/lounge Buzz in Alexandria, Virginia, babies (and baby-ish age range) can get a kick-start on their fancy $4 coffee addiction. According to a press release: Kids can now enjoy their very own coffee bar beverage with Buzz’s new Babycino. The child-friendly concoction is caffeine-free, and made with cold regular or chocolate milk served in a 12-ounce cup, and topped with frothed foam and a drizzle of homemade chocolate sauce for $1. So basically it's just milk with stuff on top. "Babycino" was new to me, but actually has entries on both Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary. Do babies really care? Don't they just want bottles and juice boxes?...
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Wordsmith William Safire could have enough columns for the rest of the year if he focused just on food "sniglets," or food words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should. For example, at Tommy's barbecue, did you commit burgacide (bürg-ə-sīd)? (A hamburger's desperate act to leap to its death through grill holes.) Or, after that vending machine trip, are your fingers covered in cheedle (chee' dul)? (Residue on fingertips after consuming Cheetos.) Bert Christensen's Truth & Humour Collection is chock full of made-up words that you really should try using in a sentence today. [via Epi-Log]...
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Do parentheses and quotes somehow cancel each other out? Seems a bit superfluous for this cake baker to go through all that punctuation trouble. Couldn't the extra icing have gone to a better cause? Like a few quote, unquote rings? (What the cake order form was probably requesting in the first place.) [via amanda0730]...
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Though the musical acts packed their bags and left Chicago last weekend, Lollapalooza is still in the air—in the form of new BYOB sushi restaurants. Rollapalooza just opened in Boystown, further proving that sushi makes for some pretty lame puns. Despite the allusion, the music here isn't so hot according to one Yelper: "Nobody at 10PM on a Friday night wants to hear 'You Light Up My Life' and a Lionel Richie medley."...
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