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tbtabby commented on the word Cincinnati oysters
Pickled pigs' feet.
February 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Cincinnati oysters
eeeeew... cool list, though!
February 8, 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word Cincinnati oysters
(pl. noun) - Pigs' trotters, or pigs' feet. Many examples can be given of this strange perversion of names - Albany beef, Marblehead turkey, etc. Similarly in England, a herring is called a Billingsgate pheasant, a two-eyed steak, etc.
--Sylva Clapin's New Dictionary of Americanisms, 1902
January 16, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Cincinnati oysters
Here's an archived copy of Clapin's Americanisms, 1902:
https://archive.org/stream/cu31924104766328/cu31924104766328_djvu.txt
January 16, 2018