JUST DESSERTS
FISH & CHIPS
IT'S CRUNCH TIME
REGIONAL VOCABULARY

FAMILIAR PHRASES
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This cake was named for being made with 16 ounces each of flour, butter, sugar & eggs

pound cake

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Alaskan pollock is the key ingredient in this alliterative McDonald's sandwich

Filet-O-Fish

100

Oh, this word! When attached to ginger, often indicates a perfectly crispy cookie

a snap

100

In parts of the South, bapsousing means to do this by dunking

baptizing

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Someone angry about a past event might be balancing a "chip" here

their shoulder

200

A Vienna library has a recipe from 1696 for this flaky pastry & ja, the filling is apple

strudel

200

Kettle Brand makes Backyard, Country Style & Korean versions of this classic chip flavor

barbecue

200

Here's a plate of the beef type of these fried, rolled Mexican treats. Made 'em myself


taquitos

200

In some places you ditch or skip; in Utah sluff is what you do if you don't go to this

school

200

Plans may not work out, so "don't" practice this act of poultry accounting

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

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Different from the New York style, the Japanese variety of this dessert is known for extreme fluffiness


cheesecake

300

La Banderita adds both chia & flax seeds to its organic blue corn these chips

tortilla chips

300

The navigator of this food brand sails the milky seas on his ship, the S.S. Guppy

Cap'n Crunch

300

A big-in-Wisconsin alternative to "yard sale" or "garage sale", it implies that you pick through the offerings

a rummage sale

300

To "throw someone under" this vehicle is to make him a scapegoat

the bus

400

Literally "lightning" in French, this long, thin chocolate-covered pastry really gives me a charge

eclair

400

popchips adds this dairy product to both cheddar- & onion-flavored potato chips

sour cream

400

Lay's potato chips that are "cooked" in small batches in one of these are thicker & crunchier than the regular chips

kettles

400

In the Plains states, a black blizzard was one of these storms

dust storm

400

Trying again after a failure is going "back to" this, a synonym for drafting table or an item on a drafting table

a drawing board

500

This 4-letter caramel custard dessert associated with Spanish recipes dates back to Roman times

flan

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In the 1970s a savvy marketer rebranded the tasty Patagonian toothfish as the "Chilean" this

Sea Bass

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This crunchy salad containing apples, celery & mayo was named for the New York hotel where it was created

Waldorf

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Folks in Portland, Oregon may not go to the beach or to the shore but to this--presumably the left one

the coast

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A possible origin for "living" this way is that upper cuts of pork are more a luxury item than the feet

high on the hog

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