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Gorming has its full terminology. Pie is charlie brown because the latter had to have pie at every meal. Dom is chicken, after the Dominique, a particular breed. Broadie is a cow or a steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...
...butter, for example, amounts to 400,000 tons, and is known among Germans as the Butterberg (butter mountain). Mansholt wants to cut the butter support price-now 790 a Ib.-by 33%. He also advocates reducing dairy herds by 500,000 heads by paying farmers $300 for every cow they slaughter, a proposal reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's decision during the Depression to slaughter baby pigs as a way of both feeding the hungry and trimming pork surpluses...
...herself a slow 32 years old. As for Mercy, she has no character at all; her external priggishness cloaks a savage Sapphic hunger. George is promptly cast out of the triangle and crawls, wounded, to obscurity. Her new job: the voice of a puppet called Clarabelle the cow...
...rather impressionable young girl asked a man directions yesterday at the edge of a field. He said, "Wait a minute" in an odd tone of belligerence and longing and continued talking to the cow: "What is it like to be a cow?" he asked...
...cow asked him whether he knew the story of the wren and the mole, or of the grass-hopper who fell in love with a water-lilly, or of why the little men in the grass are unable to eat barley? Thrice, he replied...