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  • noun Plural form of prickly pear.

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  • Irritable pomes

    April 27, 2008

  • prickly pears are especially delicious(and if you make enough, relicious) when served with road runner and/or coyote

    April 27, 2008

  • Surely it's always roadrunner or coyote, never both?

    May 2, 2008

  • Not both if you're keeping kosher, I suspect. As a Lutheran, I can say with authority that both do pair (pear -- ha!) nicely with a jello salad!

    May 2, 2008

  • Doesn't everything?

    May 2, 2008

  • So it would seem. At least in the mid-west. Ever been to a potluck dinner anywhere in the middle of the USA? You eat so much gelatin, your nails grow faster than your whiskers!

    May 3, 2008

  • Pass the hotdish please!

    May 5, 2008