Well, it isn't Baked Alaska.Q: The following three Thanksgiving dishes have something very unusual in common:
Spit-roast turkey Cornbread stuffing Boiled squash What is it they have in common, and can you name one other thing that might be served at Thanksgiving dinner that has the same property?
Edit: My hint was a callback to the recent (MOUNT) DENALI puzzle. The food I submitted was the simple CAULIFLOWER.
A: Each food item uses all five vowels (A, E, I, O and U) exactly once. Other possible foods with this property: Whipped young yams, cranberry coulis, pumpkin gelato, robust Zinfandel. Any food whose name contained all five vowels exactly once was accepted.
Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any hints that could lead directly to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought, or an internet search) before the deadline of Wednesday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here.
ReplyDeleteYou may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't give the answer away. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the Wednesday deadline. Thank you.
And it's also not cranberry muffins (though I think it comes close). --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteI love those when they have just come out of the oven.
DeleteAn unusually easy one, indeed. You might find the (slightly) harder part finding that other item on the menu, but I did find a one-word possibility.
ReplyDeleteI hope all the friends here have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
---Rob
Yep, one word will do. At least that's what I served as the answer, to the NPR website.
DeleteAgreed.
DeleteMy answer is one word also.
DeleteYes, there IS a one word perfect answer! I used to HATE this thing as a kid, but when having a Thanksgiving dinner at my now ex-girlfriend's Grandmother's around 2006 or so she served a dish of this and it was FANTASTIC! I guess it's all in the seasonings, etc. Have a great holiday everyone!
DeleteJust waiting for the deft language-butchers to get started now.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle was way too easy, and I'm sure I've heard it, or it's ilk before. It has a lot of nerve even calling itself a challenge!
ReplyDeleteNo respect at all...
Didn't American Indians serve sautéd bison to give thanks...
ReplyDeleteCanadian Thanksgiving dinner may include a poutine. Has anyone here tried that dish?
ReplyDeleteNo, poutine has never entered my eating routine.
DeleteHow about an outro?
DeleteI think someone's poutine on the Ritz.
DeleteIsn't Outro one of old Audi models from the 80s?
DeleteIf it isn't it Outro be.
DeleteI've had poutine. I've also had a roast duck poutine pizza, at Bannock, in Toronto. Gotta love Canada!
DeleteI take it you liked poutine, jan?
DeleteWell, I didn't appreciate it when Prime Minister Jean Poutine endorsed Dubya for President.. And despite his alliance with them in bombing ISIS, the French still refer to the Russian President as Vladimir Poutine, so no, I'm not that big a fan. But freedom fries, cheese curds, brown gravy and roast duck on a pizza? C'mon, ya gotta admire their intestinal fortitude, at least.
DeleteTrue.
DeleteGastronomic uses and history for Poutine.
I'm not very thankful for this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteIs it really that easy? It's so simple, I'm worried I may be wrong. If, indeed I'm right, I'm reminded of a fun, fruity song I sang as a kid...
ReplyDeleteMy favorite, Green bean casserole, doesn't make the cut.
DeleteAlways hated it, especially with the onions.
DeleteHave you ever had it made entirely from scratch? It tastes so much better.
DeleteI found four foods that share the same property as the three listed in the puzzle. I submitted the most common of them and the one I thought most likely to be served at Thanksgiving dinner.
ReplyDeleteThis is so simple I think we must be getting time off for good behavior :)
Although to Brits, it's behaviour, eh, Chuck?
DeleteI shall be bringing some of this dish in lieu of certain potatoes.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
Got it, although to my ear, it doesn't sound like something that would be served at Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteMore appropriate to Boxing Day?
DeleteI’ve reviewed some of my recent posts and found them to be somewhat flippant and obscure. In the spirit of Thanksgiving and the ensuing holidays, I will try to do better. Leaving soon to visit my relatives in Redwood City, CA. Hope the weather is a little nicer there than it is here in the east. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Regards – Phil J.
ReplyDeletePhil J. is such a polite gentleman. I'm just a brusque, supercilious amanuensis.
ReplyDeleteMine is three words.
ReplyDeleteI imagine Julia Child cooked some wonderful Thanksgiving dinners at La Pitchoune.
ReplyDeleteYum! Quiche Lorraine, perhaps?
DeleteOui, yes, ya.
DeleteCherry Clafouti or Chantilly Aux Framboises for dessert?
DeleteAvec Cointreau?
DeleteBut skip the Gauloises.
DeleteOh, don't be a milquetoast!
DeleteJulia's Oysters for a first course.
DeleteEasy as pie (mmm, pie...). I found the one-word answer; one could conceivably serve this food at Thanksgiving, or any other time of the year. And, it reminds me of a Simon and/or Garfunkel song.
ReplyDeleteCrucify them!
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DeleteIs Thanksgiving the thyme for parsley and sage?
DeleteNo. It's the moment for a super-cocktail...
DeleteAbsinthe sour?
DeleteI had a Double IPA instead.
DeleteHallucinogens.
DeleteSuperorganic Macronutrients
DeleteBuffalo Dishes
DeleteCrawfish Etoufee
DeleteThe modern model of Thanksgiving followed in the 19th century served up heaping portions of prayer and fasting.
ReplyDeleteI'm going away for Thanksgiving. I don't need this. I give up(and that's no hint).
ReplyDeleteAre you certain?
DeleteDon't be discouraged, think of your reputation.
DeleteMy reputation is assured. I just have too much on my mind, with packing and everything. It's not every year I go out of state for the holidays. The answer just isn't as obvious to me as it probably is to you. Plus, I'm still struggling with an archaic word in one of the Puzzleria! puzzles. Legolambda can certainly vouch for me. Dare I say I have too much on my plate at this time.
DeleteYes indeedy, I certainly can and will vouch for patjberry! He unfailingly flails away at and chows down on our puzzles over on Puzzleria! with gustatory delight… which, coincidentally, is the name my great Aunt Monica gave to her Thanksgiving Day specialty: a hot dish casserole (redundant!) with just five ingredients: uglifruit, artichokes, olives, eggplant, and imitation crabmeat.
DeleteIt was delish!
LegoSometimesShe’dTossInAYamOrTwo(ButNeverASalad!)
Oh how I long for the days of Lego's Crossroads Diner...
ReplyDelete(where the chickens sometimes just didn’t make it… and we passed the savings on to you!)
LegoButAlasTheyClosedItDownAndSomeSeedyPuzzleriaJointMovedIn!
I could go for a Soy Danish Cruller about now. But I'll settle for a nice donut.
DeleteAh yes, Paul. Crullers and especially donuts (do nut spell it doughnuts!), those glorious toruses of the gods! Yet are we not but reliving long past repasts of pastries, pasties and passion fruit.?
DeleteYes, we are. Still, I can recall it as if it were only about 19 months ago!
LegoWhoLikesToCallHisSentimentallyProustianLongingAndWistfulAffectionForRemembranceOfEdibleThingsPast...Noshtalgia!
I thought of about half a dozen additional menu items listening to the Seattle Symphony play Mahler's 10th symphony.
ReplyDeleteI might also say that one of Will's menu items has more in common than the other two, but I'm not going to tell you why.
One has more in common than two.
DeleteVaguely reminds me of Animal Farm.
I guess one could serve arsenic roux to the mother-in-law.
ReplyDeleteSounds mouth-watering!
DeleteThat roux might bring forth her abstemious ways, Ken.
DeleteI roux the day
DeleteOnce when I was a guest at Timothy Leary's Thanksgiving Day dinner, he served us sea bream and mushrooms seasoned with nutmeg.
ReplyDeleteLegoAndForDessertHeServedHis"Special"Brownies!
It's $1250 a course??? No thanks!
ReplyDeleteDon't be cheap.
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ReplyDeleteIn the Holiday spirit of fun, and with the writing of another computer program I came up with many answers that fit this puzzle although most were not very realistic! A few that I liked and thought were funny, I will share after Wednesday, but here are four clues to four of the answers that I liked. What might the Beverly Hillbillies, rednecks, 1980s yuppies, and a hunter in a fantasy world possibly be having for Thanksgiving dinner?
ReplyDeleteI'd be willing to reply here with some answers, but any answers which would be correct for your puzzle here, would also be correct, albeit unusual, for the MAIN puzzle here!
DeleteDoes the answer have to be a main course?
ReplyDeleteA side course works also, yes?
DeleteOne-upmanship!
DeleteActually, a side course doesn't work, does it?
DeleteApologies to my Uncle Sidney: A Sid Course.
DeleteTell him not to overeat, or he might have A Sid Reflux.
DeleteWho brought up one-upmanship, jan?!
DeleteThat was a clue, not a critique.
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DeleteMy proposed menu, currently at 16 items, includes initial courses, main dishes, side dishes, desserts, and a condiment.
Deletejan, oh I know. I was being facetious.
Delete(If you don't have it by now. . .).
WW - I wanted to say your comment was out of order, but it isn't.
DeleteThere'a always room for something gelatinous for dessert.
DeleteHey! No laughing!
Delete... or else.... a tongue-lashing?
DeleteI'm sorry, Dr. Huxtable!
DeleteMusical clue: Hey Mr. Tambourine Man.
ReplyDeleteHow about sweet potato pumpkin pie?
ReplyDeleteNow my ear hurts
ReplyDeleteYou and Philly Cinephile, Ralph Loizzo.
DeleteThis is the same menu as I served for my Fall Equinox party.
ReplyDeleteI have a 3-word answer that I shouldn't have to drum up support for.
ReplyDeleteROASTED DRUM STICKS?
DeleteBrilliant, as usual, ron!
DeleteBut, no.
:)
I think FINGER BOWLS is a fitting side dish that also qualifies, but I doubt WS would accept it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't think he'll accept SEASONING RUB either.
DeleteI'm making vegan sushi rolls, I don't care if WS accepts it or not, they're delicious.
DeleteI've never had a problem with raw vegetables ... just sayin'.
DeleteI don't really get the sayin' versus saying thing, Paul.
DeleteYo, elucidate?
please
DeleteJus' tryin' to sound cool.
DeleteBusted.
as it were
But, seriously, there is a vegetable, which, in its raw state I find enormously scrumptious, and is alright cooked ...
DeleteAh, the light just came on.
Enunciation is uncool!? Is that what you're sayingg, Paul?
DeleteJust to clarify (and sound very uncool), vegan sushi rolls can have cooked veggies - I can't imagine eggplant uncooked, mushrooms taste better cooked, I've done asparagus both raw and cooked. Most of the other veggies I use (avocado, carrots, sweet peppers, cukes, etc. stay raw.
DeleteI think Paul's veg would not go well with sushi.
But, eco, isn't ketchup Amerika's favorite vegetable? I've never seen it served as a dish though. Maybe I'll work with Marilyn Monroe. Talk about a dish!
DeleteThat's Paul's vegg, right, eco?
DeleteI prefer raw mushrooms but the rest of your vegan sushi sounds great. If it has firmish avocado in it, you can't go wrong.
Paul's still in the room; I hope y'all realize that.
DeleteUnquestionably.
DeleteThank you for that appalling news.
DeletePall has never tried sushi.
DeletePall doesn't really want to.
Nevertheless, Paul thinks his raw veggie would complement anything.
Obama is not only a pol who likes sushi, he's a pol who is sushi!
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Deleteskydiveboy: you'll have to explain how "finger bowls" works.
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ReplyDeleteArugula & Lemon Oil Dressing will keep them coming back for seconds.
ReplyDeleteI believe in God
DeleteAnd I believe that God
Believes in Claude
That's me
David:
DeleteWhen I serve Hot Buttered Rum drinks with my homemade batter they keep coming back for hours.
Tenacious, aren't we?
ReplyDeleteDo you mean like Al Gore?
DeleteMiscellaneous and uncomplimentary, both.
DeleteNo one so far has mentioned a commontater dish.
ReplyDeleteThis has nothing to do with the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteJust a note for no discernible reason, but to say I just now, not more than two minutes ago, finished reading a book for the second time. I have never done that before. It is, Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener. I first read it over fifty years ago. If you have not read it, you should. It won the Pulitzer.
I've always enjoyed Michener, but I've never read that one. BTW, most of his novels are too long for me to read twice...
DeleteCurtis,
DeleteTales of the South Pacific is the one that got him started and you will be very glad when you read it. It is nothing at all like the musical or film. A page turner.
In all graciousness I cautioned and discouraged the ambidextrous delusional businesswoman with little education not to eat too much
ReplyDeletemouthwatering and gelatinous food this holiday, and if she partook of this behaviour, it would be unforgivable and end up with exhaustion,
ulcerations, pneumonia, she would have to be inoculated, and end up in the crematorium after many autopsies!
She neurotically replied, know your boundaries, you unsociable and unreasoning snob! This dialogue is unforgivable and of unimportance!
I will be in a state of euphoria and exultation when each gregarious housemaid brings each dish of my favourites! I am unmotivated
to listen to you! Do some soulsearching! Go talk to other ignoramuses you discountable malnourished nut! Pandemonium will not ensue!
How facetious of you!
DeleteVery nice, ratoig!
DeleteVery nice ratio of "winning words" to "also-ran words."
LegoLambdium
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ReplyDeleteLeptospirosis
ReplyDeleteWith my family - a "stiff rum and coke" is a real thing.
ReplyDeleteLiterary clue: A pun in James Joyce's Ulysses - I think in the National Library scene. If this helps, you won't be in debt to me.
ReplyDeleteHa! I love _Ulysses_. Scylla and Charybdis! Got it!
Delete---Rob
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I submitted an answer with a one word item as well as a two word and a three word one, but the two word item is sort of abbreviated; normally three words but that would disqualify it. The three word item utilizes something that falls from... not a great height.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to agree this was somewhat insulting as a "challenge." I guess the challenge was just finding things that fit the category.
DeleteThe dishes are made up of other words that may have alternate meanings.
ReplyDeleteTOFURKEY > to fur key
CANDIED CARROTS > can died car rots
HUSHPUPPIES > hush pup pies
FINGERBOWLS > finger bowls (These are a dish served with warm water. Just because you are not supposed to consume the contents it doesn’t mean it is any less a dish.)
How do WS's options fit that criteria? Especially "cornbread" (a compound word but the individual words are much the same, unless you think of bread as money); stuffing and boiled (which I find hard to split, and the alternate definitions I know are very similar unless you consider slang).
DeleteOne of the clues in this month's Atlantic Puzzle is "Food that is a racket" (6 letters), which does fit nicely with your interpretation.
eco,
DeleteCorn could be a foot ailment, or bad humor. Bread can mean money. I also found stuffing and boiled hard to split, but you can have boils and you stuff furniture.
Anyway I now see clearly that I do not have the intended answer and my only excuse is that I suffered all week from a severe vowel blockage.
"I am just shocked" (oh wait, we don't need to do that anymore) "that you missed" (oops, I did it again) "this, a corny puzzle" (must ... stop ... now...)
Deleteeco,
DeleteYou may be shocked, but at least you are not shucked.
So here are the food items on my Thanksgiving menu:
ReplyDeleteSplit Pea Soup
Duck Liver Toast (trendy, sort of like Duck Foie Gras, without the bad rep; also note the vowels in reverse alphabetical order)
Bacon Quiche
Broiled Squab
Smoked Quail (I think this was my submitted answer)
Curried Salmon
Tuna Pot Pie
Cauliflower
Candied Nut Roll
Mom’s Fruitcake
Double IPA
Here is a somewhat different (and more demented) list:
DeleteCauliflower
Fried quahogs (a delicacy in Rhode Island)
Lukewarm cow milk
Cold quail eggs
Wild lake trout
Duck ovaries (are they edible?)
Yes, but they taste offal.
DeleteKen,
DeleteYou ask, are they edible? Ovary much so.
[I'm not going to egg him on.]
DeleteDon't believe everything you hear. No matter what they say, I did not spur my horse.
Deletejan,
DeleteSpeaking of medical issues. Perhaps you can explain why on the news they announced there was a surgeon oil prices?
Gas pains, maybe? I don't know, maybe you should read the appendix.
DeleteI have heard of reading tea leaves, but reading appendix. I don't think I could stomach doing that.
DeleteIt's way past the stomach in the GI tract, nearer the end, like in a book. It's off the :
DeleteI was a G I once, but I lost track of my discharge papers.
DeleteThe names of all of the dishes contain each vowel A, E, I, O, and U exactly once.
ReplyDeleteCauliflower is probably the most obvious one-word choice for another dish. I sent in "braised sprouts" before checking word lists.
"Milquetoast", "hallucinogens", "mouth-watering", "main course", "one-upmanship", "tongue-lashing", "tambourine", "tenacious" all fit the pattern.
Enough said!
ReplyDeleteI wrote, "An unusually easy one, indeed." My hint was in the first letters of those words. Some friends I know have guessed that the answer is that the foods mentioned come from the New World rather than the Old, but maybe that does not pass the "very unusual" stipulation.
ReplyDelete---Rob
I'm having BUTTER CROISSANTS, QUICK YEAST ROLLS, FRIED COUNTRY HAM, and a COLD TURKEY SANDWICH if I survive. :)
ReplyDeleteMy "Arugula & Lemon Oil Dressing will keep them coming back for seconds" has each vowel twice (if you let me get away with the & having no vowels).
ReplyDeleteMy comment "I might also say that one of Will's menu items has more in common than the other two, but I'm not going to tell you why" alludes to Spit-Roast Turkey also having Y as a vowel, with the word "Why" hinting at my meaning. I decided not to say "... 20% more ...".
Each of the foods listed in the puzzle contains all five vowels. There are at least four one-word foods that have the same property: cauliflower, andouille, bouillabaisse and ratatouille.
ReplyDeleteThe most common of the four and most likely to be served at Thanksgiving dinner in my opinion would be cauliflower (though my ex-wife’s aunt did serve bouillabaisse one Thanksgiving a gazillion years ago - delicious :)
Wishing Blaine and all Blainesville bloggers a very happy Thanksgiving.
Chuck
Ellen DeGeneres’s Vegen Feed (Dresden, Tennessee)
ReplyDeleteEntrées *:
Eggs
Cheese
Chevre
Lefse
Entrées*:
Peppered Beef
Elk
Eel
Deer
Geese
Veg:
Dressed Greens
Red Bell Peppers
Leeks
Beets
Fennel
Desserts:
Bev:
Teem
Beer
* Apparently, “entrée” can mean both appetizer and main course.
Rumor has it that Alan Alda is considering something similar for Saraland, Alabama. The menu isn't set, but it will include Pasta Salad.
DeleteWhat I submitted:
ReplyDeleteMy answer: Those three dishes each use all 5 vowels (a, e, i, o & u) once and once only.
One other thing that might be served? Ma's chicken soup.
My lament: chocolate pudding came SOOOO CLOSE! Too bad chocolate has two o's.
Agree that once, and once only, vowel usage made it more interesting.
ReplyDelete"It's $1250 a course?" fits that structure...
Which, as a Wheel of Fortune puzzle, would have cost 5x$250=$1250
(If vowel prices haven't appreciated!)
"I am not very thankful" for this puzzle uses each vowel once, and fits cryptic clue criteria. Vegan sushi rolls also fit the requirement if not the tradition.
ReplyDeleteYou ingrate! ;-)
DeleteAll the Thanksgiving dishes have the 5 vowels, a, e, i, o, and u, used exactly once; I submitted CAULIFLOWER.
ReplyDeleteI do bring a yummy smashed cauliflower dish to our Thanksgiving Table. No praise for using all the vowels, though ;-) {until now, anyway}.
Behaviour, facetious, abstemious and Julia Child's French home, La Pitchoune, all pointed to words or phrases using all the vowels exactly once.
"Oui, yes, ya" >>> 5 vowels.
"Crucify them!" refers to cruciferous veggies, including cauliflower.
-Spit-roast turkey
ReplyDelete-Cornbread stuffing
-Boiled squash
Each item contains the vowels, AEIOU, once and only once (so “Quiche Lorraine” does not qualify). Another such item that “might be served at Thanksgiving dinner” is CAULIFLOWER or LOQUAT PIE, GOULASH PIE, SAUTÉD BISON, SAUTÉD RHINO, SAUTÉD HIPPO, SAUTÉD LION, etc, depending on where you are from!☺
And then there is the ever popularized & authorized UNICORN STEAK!
(W)HOUPPY THANKSGIVEN !
Admittedly, my suggestion of Quiche Lorraine doesn't work. However, Sauted is correctly spelled sauteed, with 2 e's, so the zoo menu doesn't qualify either.
DeleteThanks CL. Make that Bison sauté, Rhino sauté, Hippo sauté, Lion sauté.
DeleteI went with Fresh Quinoa.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the front page of the New York Times for a (pretty easy) Will Shortz and Joel Fagliano Thanksgiving puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI went with Cauliflower, even though I've never server, or been served, that vegetable on Thanksgiving. My hint of a Simon and/or Garfunkel song referred The Boxer, thinking of the cauliflower ears of many pugilists.
ReplyDeleteSurprised no one mentioned, but the term of art is "supervocalic," which of course is itself a supervocalic.
ReplyDeleteIn this case, shouldn't it be "suppervocalic"?
DeleteIf you think about gravy this time of year you probably think of giblet gravy, and if you really think about what giblets are you might say they're foul. Foul giblet gravy. Just a bad joke.
ReplyDelete"The shotgun that killed this turkey had a tremendous kick to it." A 'tremendous kick', in this context, is an 'awful recoil', which is an anagram of CAULIFLOWER. And think it's better raw than cooked.
I think Blaine and Margaret's HOT CRANBERRY MUFFINS is a perfectly good answer.
'Deft language-butchers' are 'adroit punsters'. ROASTED TURNIPS
A 'brusque, supercilious amanuensis' is a 'gruff, snotty scribe'. CRAB-OYSTER STUFFING
My 3-word answer that should have everyone's UNPRODDED BACKING is BAKED CORN PUDDING.
A,E,I,O,U per dish. I'm reminded of that kid's song, where you take the phrase: "I like to eat, eat, eat, apple's and bananas!"; and then substitute the 'a' with all the other vowels. "I like to eat, eat, eat, eeples, and beeneenees", and so on.
ReplyDeleteI realize now that dishes with more than one same vowel are discounted. So, my addition of RATATOUILLE, although it contains all the vowels, doesn't count. CAULIFLOWER wins!
SO... What might the Beverly Hillbillies, rednecks, 1980s yuppies, and a hunter in a fantasy world possibly be having for Thanksgiving dinner?
ReplyDelete1) Possum Entrails
2) Lemur Road Kill
3) Pizza Fondue
4) Carved Unicorn
Some other answers:
A Fried Foul
Apple Liquor
I searched for lists of traditional Thanksgiving dishes and fairly early in my searching I found hickory nut cake. Kind of surprised nobody else seems to have thought of/stumbled upon that one.
DeleteGood list, ratoig. I just love pizza fondue. Yupp, I Entered into this vale of tears in Wisconsin, and therefore can never get enough cheese.
ReplyDeleteRegarding my facetious Thanksgiving Day dinner at Timothy Leary's house: all the dishes on his menu -- the sea bream, mushrooms seasoned with nutmeg, and his "special” brownies – were hAllUcInOgEns!
LegoWhoIsNowLeeryOfTakingBrowniesFromStangers
ecoarchitect, how about the moniker ucoarchitect or ecoarchituct for this week?
ReplyDeleteYou, too, can be supervocalic which, I believe, could be consonant with your Thanksgiving plans. ;-)
New occupancies? You named it (communicated?), uncombative, subordinated, odalisque Bulletin Woman in concubinage.
DeleteNo one mentioned:
edacious - of, relating to, or given to eating. Very apropos
gourmandise - eat well, eat greedily
degustation - tasting or savoring
overeating - Jan got 70% of the way there, many more will be there tomorrow.
outfeasting - same
permutations - lots of those here
expurgation - lots of that needed here
Enjoy Thanksgiving!
Now I am again confused. The New York Times online edition has this headline at the top of the front page:
ReplyDeleteTurkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane Near Syrian Border
Being it is so close to Thanksgiving Day, would this be considered a turkey shoot?
Maybe we should show our displeasure with Turkey's actions by having some poutine -- you know, the Turks are fighting the [cheese] Kurds.
DeleteSo bad it's good, jan.
DeleteSaddam Hussein always complained of having Kurds in his way too.
DeleteMust be why they found him hiding in a spider hole.
DeleteActually he was sharing it with Little Miss Muffet because they had so much in common. She was careful not to get in his whey though.
DeleteDown came his reign, and washed him out. Oops, wrong spider rhyme.
DeleteI think we are being a bit hard on a guy who ran his country for decades rather successfully, albeit cruelly. It must have been a mixed blessing to have that much power and yet have to constantly worry about being murdered by those closest to him. A difficult job and he didn't get the hang of it until the very end.
DeleteUnfortunately after the son dried up the reign the ItSy bItSy spiders are climbing again.
DeleteThe itsy bitsy spider
DeleteClimbed up the waterspout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again
The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the kitchen wall
Swoosh! went the fan
And made the spider fall
Off went the fan
No longer did it blow
So the itsy bitsy spider
Back up the wall did go
The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the yellow pail
In came a mouse
And flicked her with his tail
Down fell the spider
The mouse ran out the door
Then the itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the pail once more
The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the rocking chair
Up jumped a cat
And knocked her in the air
Down plopped the cat
And when he was asleep
The itsy bitsy spider
Back up the chair did creep
The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the maple tree
She slipped on some dew
And landed next to me
Out came the sun
And when the tree was dry
The itsy bitsy spider
Gave it one more try
The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up without a stop
She spun a silky web
Right at the very top
She wove and she spun
And when her web was done
The itsy bitsy spider
Rested in the sun
And, of course, her name was Charlotte. . .
I'm impressed. And, sung to the tune of Hail, Columbia.
DeleteI did a little research.
DeleteMost female spiders are larger than their male counterparts. So an 'itsy bitsy' spider would probably be male.
Male spiders tend to stop feeding (you read it right -- stop feeding) upon reaching maturity, in order to attend to 'other matters'. Wasn't there some famous lab rat that died of starvation by continuously pressing the 'cocaine' bar and ignoring the 'food' bar? Too much selenium in the food?
jan has it all upside down. VPOTUS is serenaded with The Itsy Bitsy Spider.
But, of course, jan.
DeleteBut, of course, jan.
DeleteMy menu for tomorrow's vowel fest:
ReplyDeleteChoice of: Split pea soup, Ma's chicken soup, or Dad's lentil soup
Breads: Cornbread muffins, Quick bread rolls, Hot cranberry muffins
Main Dishes: Broiled tuna, Roasted duckling
Condiment: Half sour pickles
Veggies: Cauliflower, Roasted turnips, Red quinoa
Desserts: Hot rhubarb pie, Brown bread pudding, Walnut brownies, or Hot fruit cake
My wife points out that "holiday menu" itself fits the pattern.
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As has been mentioned several times now, each of Will’s Thanksgiving dishes contains one instance of each of the five vowels.
ReplyDeleteThe key words in my posting were flippant (and) obscure and Redwood City, CA.
Instead of flippant (and) obscure, I first wrote facetious, which contains each of the vowels once, but felt the clue would be too obvious. So I added obscure, to take the focus away from facetious. Still not satisfied, I changed facetious to flippant, a synonym. By happenstance, note that the combination of flippant and obscure contains each of the vowels once.
Redwood City, CA, refers to the Sequoia giant redwood tree. Sequoia also contains each of the vowels once.
In my reply to Philly Cinephile, Boxing Day alludes to flattened and misshapen cauliflower ears – an affliction suffered by some veteran boxers.
My suggested dishes for Will were Hot Curried Yams and Ma’s Oyster Stuffing.
Happy Thanksgiving! – Phil J.
FRESH BUFFALO CHIPS
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