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| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 618 Registered: 9-2010 |
I'm quite sure almost no one else in my family pumvalefiacs. They think my father and I are very weird for doing it. Yet, I know several other people who would consider it quite normal. The question is, what is it? | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 661 Registered: 5-2010 |
Does it involve food? Work? Leisure? A daily activity? Do you and your father pumvalefiac together? Can it be done alone? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 619 Registered: 9-2010 |
Hey, ISH! :-D Does it involve food?This Work? Inasmuch as food preparation can be called work. Leisure? Thisish A daily activity? Not for me and Dad, unfortunately; I can't speak for others where this would be more common. Do you and your father pumvalefiac together? Well, we're together, but we do the activity separately...'at around the same time' might be more accurate. He's not 'helping' me do it. Can it be done alone? Oh yes, it only needs one person. | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 662 Registered: 5-2010 |
Hey Kaylee! Does it involve the physical act of preparing food? Or more how the food itself is being prepared? Does it involve breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6311 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the specific food relevant? Food preparation? Can anybody pumvalefiac? Can the action be done with drinks as well? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 620 Registered: 9-2010 |
Glad to see you on my new puzzle, ISH! You too, Balin! *hugs* ISH: Does it involve the physical act of preparing food? The food's already mostly prepared, it's just... Or more how the food itself is being prepared? ...this, I think. It involves condiments/garnish of a sort. Does it involve breakfast? Lunch? This Dinner? Or this Balin: Is the specific food relevant? VERY relevant, GOOD q! Food preparation? Yesish, see above Can anybody pumvalefiac? Assuming they have the correct food and they want to. Can the action be done with drinks as well? No. | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 663 Registered: 5-2010 |
Is the food packaged/frozen? Or made more or less from scratch? Is it cooked? Ingredients present in food: Bread? Meat? Vegetables? Fruit? Dairy? Sauce or condiment? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6314 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the food a snack? Dessert? Main course (DOYD of "course")? Something like a hot dog? Or hamburger? Is it eaten for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 622 Registered: 9-2010 |
ISH: Is the food packaged/frozen? It can be, but it's not best that way. Or made more or less from scratch? It's better made fresh. Is it cooked? Yes. Ingredients present in food: Bread? No. Meat? DOYD of meat. Animal, yes. Vegetables? DOYD of 'vegetables', yes, though they're generally served in their country of origin with peas. Fruit? Only the juice of one particular. Dairy? No. Sauce or condiment? These are what you need to figure out. Balin: Is the food a snack? No. Dessert? No Main course (DOYD of "course")? Yesish. Something like a hot dog? No. Or hamburger? Not this. Is it eaten for breakfast? No. Lunch? This is more common in its country of origin, I think, and sometimes here, Dinner? though this is probably more common here, and there too. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6317 Registered: 4-2010 |
Fish? Chicken? Turkey? Some other edible bird? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 625 Registered: 9-2010 |
Fish? This! Chicken? Turkey? Some other edible bird? Not these. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6319 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the specific type of fish relevant? Method of cooking? Is it sushi? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 626 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is the specific type of fish relevant? Only for purists like myself. *snicker* And only certain kinds of fish are accepted in its country of origin, one in particular. Method of cooking? Very relevant indeed! Is it sushi? I wouldn't touch raw fish with a ten foot pole, thanks. =P No, not this. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6321 Registered: 4-2010 |
What about an eleven-foot pole? Is the fish grilled? Boiled? Fried? Roasted? Blackened? Is it fish and chips? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 627 Registered: 9-2010 |
What about an eleven-foot pole? Not any pole, thanks, Balin. Is the fish grilled? No, but... Boiled? Not this, but... Fried? Yes, and... Roasted? No, because... Blackened? Not this, but see below... Is it fish and chips? YES!!!!! So, can you figure it out, then? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6323 Registered: 4-2010 |
Do you eat it with tartar sauce? Hot sauce? Lemon juice? Ketchup? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 629 Registered: 9-2010 |
Do you eat it with tartar sauce? Ick, I hate the stuff. Hot sauce? *shudder* Lemon juice? THIS! And... Ketchup? What do you take me for, an American? :-p Well, okay, so yes, I am, but proper chips should not be eaten with ketchup. You're missing something else, too. And by all that is holy do not say mustard unless you want me to be sick. Haha. | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2125 Registered: 3-2006 |
So you put something distinctive on your fish and chips? Something that some people would consider normal, and others odd? Does this have to do with Anglo-American cultural differences? You put peanut butter on it, don't you ;0) Raisins? (Incidentally, the real thing comes with malt vinegar. A gentrified version involves a lemon. Peas, certainly. Some like curry sauce, but not so much with a fish. Others like 'scraps', which in other parts of the UK are called 'bits'. These are battery leftovers. This is a Northern thing. No doubt Mr Woubit will come along and explain that they eat them with stale beer and pheasant-dripping in his neck of the woods.) | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2126 Registered: 3-2006 |
Oh I forgot mayonnaise. The Belgians always do the mayonnaise thing. Is it this? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6326 Registered: 4-2010 |
I'm one for eating fish and chips with hot sauce, lemon juice, vinegar, or any combination of those. My sister's a ketchup person herself. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 630 Registered: 9-2010 |
So you put something distinctive on your fish and chips? Something that some people would consider normal, and others odd? Yes, keep in mind I'm an American, though my paternal grandfather, who died before I was born, was from Cheshire :-D Brits would consider me perfectly normal (I hope) while my American family and friends (save for my dad, and my Anglophile friend Michelle) consider me an oddity. Does this have to do with Anglo-American cultural differences? Yes, I'd say so. I developed the habit of eating fish and chips after visiting England. You put peanut butter on it, don't you ;0) What do you take me for, Woodworm?!?!?!?! Raisins? Oh come now, I said chips, not celery! (Incidentally, the real thing comes with malt vinegar. A gentrified version involves a lemon. Peas, certainly. Lemon, and I've had them with peas over there, they never come with peas over here. *Sigh* But peas have nothing to do with it. Some like curry sauce, but not so much with a fish. Others like 'scraps', which in other parts of the UK are called 'bits'. These are battery leftovers. Er...'battery leftovers'? Never got further north than Stoke-on-Trent. This is a Northern thing. No doubt Mr Woubit will come along and explain that they eat them with stale beer and pheasant-dripping in his neck of the woods.) If you say so. =P | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 631 Registered: 9-2010 |
Oh I forgot mayonnaise. The Belgians always do the mayonnaise thing. Is it this? Not a drop of Belgian blood in me. They must be weirder than Americans. :-p I'm one for eating fish and chips with hot sauce, lemon juice, vinegar, or any combination of those. My sister's a ketchup person herself. So Balin, was that a guess or a statement? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2127 Registered: 3-2006 |
(Relieved about the PB thing. I'd better not guess Jello, then.) How about a nice pickled egg? (Quite popular with an older generation here in Scarborough.) | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 632 Registered: 9-2010 |
(Relieved about the PB thing. I'd better not guess Jello, then.) How about a nice pickled egg? (Quite popular with an older generation here in Scarborough.) I have never been to Scarborough, nor Scarborough Fair, so pickled eggs are not relevant. Nor are parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme. That was someone else's puzzle. And no, I haven't had Jello in a while and would never eat it with fish and chips. Balin's statement was very close to the answer in part... | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2128 Registered: 3-2006 |
Brown sauce? HP sauce? (We've ruled out curry sauce?) | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 634 Registered: 9-2010 |
Brown sauce? HP sauce? (We've ruled out curry sauce?) We have ruled out curry sauce, and we may rule out brown sauce (is that the same as HP sauce? or is it like A1?) and HP sauce. Balin actually mentioned the condiment, missing the necessary adjective, in one of his guesses. | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2129 Registered: 3-2006 |
But not malt vinegar? Perhaps another kind of vinegar? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2130 Registered: 3-2006 |
Balsamic? Now that would be posh :-) | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 635 Registered: 9-2010 |
But not malt vinegar? Perhaps another kind of vinegar? Of course malt vinegar...the 'malt' was the part he missed out. Do you want to try and put it together now? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2131 Registered: 3-2006 |
Oh, I did say malt vinegar above: several posts up. Admittedly not phrased as a question. Well, everyone here has this with their fish and chips. Is it that the Americans think this strange? Or perhaps that you mix it with lemon? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 636 Registered: 9-2010 |
Balsamic? Now that would be posh :-) This is my mother's favorite vinegar, but she wouldn't put it on fish and chips. Oh, I did say malt vinegar above: several posts up. Admittedly not phrased as a question. I must have accidentally ignored it. Sorry, Woodworm. Well, everyone here has this with their fish and chips. I'd noticed. :-D Is it that the Americans think this strange? They (my family and friends) most certainly find it odd, although luckily it's not so unknown that I can't get malt vinegar and lemon when I eat out and ask for them. Or perhaps that you mix it with lemon? Especially this. It's enough for a ***SPOILER***, I think... To pumvalefiac is to PUt Malt Vinegar And LEmon on FIsh And Chips. | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2132 Registered: 3-2006 |
Aaaah ... I'm so slow. I knew that word was chosen for a reason, and I wondered if it was an anagram. Hehe. I'll give it a try next time. | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 664 Registered: 5-2010 |
Never had fish and chips, so I wouldn't know whether that was weird or not! Good puzzle though, and I like your derived word! | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 637 Registered: 9-2010 |
I thought it was a rule that the neologistic word *had* to be an anagram, so maybe I just don't know enough about them. They all seem to be, at least the ones I've read. Thanks for cracking the puzzle, Balin and Woodworm, and thanks for weighing in, ISH! Fish and chips = most awesome. Do try. Although the fish MUST be cod to be the best quality, and the chips should be what Americans would call steak fries or wedge-cut fries, NOT French fries. (And God spare me, NOT what we Americans refer to as chips. Potato chips and cod do NOT work.) | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 665 Registered: 5-2010 |
I had the opportunity to try some while in Newfoundland, but chose cod tongue instead. Surprisingly tasty! | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 6335 Registered: 4-2010 |
I agree with your assessment of fish and chips quality, Kaylee. And no, not all neologisms need to be anagrams, acronyms, or other wordplays, although most are created that way. |
