Re: OT: Moutarde (was: Re: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?)

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From: "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: Moutarde (was: Re: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?)


> John writes:
>
> >In this case, the reference is not to "French mustard" but to "French's
> >Mustard", a brand name presumably derived from the surname "French".
> >
> >I don't eat mustard, so I don't know if it's any good or not.
>
> While I teethed on it, and it *is* yellow and somewhat mustardish, it
> sucks, particularly if you consider the variety of other options
> available in these times (Nance's *rules*, man). So though it may not
> make your language analogy page, let us say:
>
> French's Mustard is to mustard what Wonder Bread is to bread.
>
English Mustard is the only mustard.  It's the kind that eats your mouth,
spits it out, after having thoroughly digested it, having bathed it in acid.
I like it ;-)

> It keeps selling, so someone in Northern Minnesota must like it.
>
> Kou
>
> PS: Next target of vituperative bile: VegAll.
>

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