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Food Slogans
3 LETTERS, 2 MEANINGS
WORLD LANGUAGES
Postcolonial Allusions
100

A vulgar naked fellow

A crude (lewd or rude) nude dude

100

The snack that smiles back

Goldfish

100

Trendy, or where the thighbone meets the pelvis

Hip

100

Sardinian is often said to be the closest living relative to the vulgar form of this dead language

Latin

100

"My Favorite Things" are shared by Maria in this film watched by Estha and Rahel in The God of Small Things

The Sound of Music

200

Pristine pinto perceived!

Clean bean seen

200

Sour, sweet, gone

Sour Patch Kids

200

Move with speed, or nil, nada, nothing

Zip

200

The second-most spoken language in Australia is this form of Chinese

Mandarin

200

Bertha Mason from this 1847 novel inspired Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Jane Eyre

300

An online journal chronicling canine running for casual exercise

A dog jog blog

300

I'm lovin' it

McDonald's

300

A type of bird or a machine used to lift heavy objects

Crane

300

In the early twentieth century, Irish nationalists campaigned to replace road signs with those that feature both English and this, which was only made an official language of the European Union in 2005

Gaelic

300

Ngugi wa Thiongo's A Grain of Wheat includes highlighted and underlined passages from this significant book in colonial history

The Bible (specifically, Kihika's)

400

The superior, more exquisite coal company employee breakfast joint 

The finer miner diner

400

Once you pop, the fun don't stop

Pringles

400

A strong desire, or Japanese currency

Yen

400

The most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, this language has Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, and English linguistic influences

Punjabi

400

Ammu reads to Estha and Rahel from this British author's animalistic collection of children's stories in The God of Small Things

Rudyard Kipling

500

Extra background information about daily household tasks

More chore lore

500

Melts in your mouth, not your hands

M&Ms

500

A fruit seed, or one of the dots on dice

Pip

500

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was imprisoned for writing a play in this language, spoken by over 4 million people in Kenya and one supporting character in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Gĩkũyũ/Kikuyu

500

Mulk Raj Anand fraternized with this group of literary modernists in 20th century London; the famous publishing house was later named after the group's meeting place

The Bloomsbury Group

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