Comments on: Awright?

By: India

India — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:50:06 +0000

I’m not sure what the rest of the country’s excuse is, but in New York City I suspect we use the word produce because we’re not quite sure where fruits and vegetables come from. I mean, they can’t really grow on trees and out of the dirt, like all the picture books say they do, right? Somebody had to produce them somewhere, in a factory. Like, let’s be realistic here for a minute . . .

By: Dervala

Dervala — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:08:28 +0000

Nice one.

But bagels could be “boiled goods”. Freedom fries could be “fried goods”.

It would match the formal usages that Americans sometimes go for—“apparel” instead of “clothes”, “produce” (pronounced strangely) instead of “fruit and vegetables”. When I moved to New York these oddities were the hardest to learn.

By: moose

moose — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:23:24 +0000

Because boiled and fried are not good.

Sorry.