Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clyde Sommers, a Star Market produce veteran, has had a lot of experience with shelf life and death. His personal recommendation for dorm-room shelves is the jicama. "It's like a potato inside. You can eat it like a mini carrot, and dip it in things." Other non-perishable fresh foods tend to be roots with dense textures, including the yucca, celery root and horseradish...
...suffer the embarrassment of not raising enough money to keep her unannounced bid at the presidency afloat. I'm not sure which is worse--that or the fact that her own husband didn't even support her. The media chastised Dan Quayle for his inability to spell the word "potato." But then again, we've all become a little "Spell Check"-dependent. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been criticized for his fiery temper. Gary "Family Values" Bauer has come under suspicion for spending time in an office alone with a young female aide. Pat Buchanan has never stopped being...
...meantime, I'm brushing up on my couch potato skills for Sunday night and learning the inner workings of both the remote and the antenna of my new (all-too-used) television. "Agents Mulder and Scully continue to uncover that which is true" declares the Fox press release for the premiere. I can't wait...
...instance, the Boston dialect is commonly thought to be in immediate danger of disappearing, but the traditional linguistic features associated with it have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons...
...there they are, jogging into Noah's Bagels in Santa Monica, Calif., proudly ordering bagels with the innards scooped out, disposed like toxic waste and replaced with full-fat cream cheese. In Chicago restaurants, the unpaunched are gorging on porterhouse steaks but banishing the baked potato back to Idaho. And Jennifer Aniston has been publicly chastised by her former trainer, who thinks Aniston's low-carb, high-protein diet is too extreme. When even the scrawniest cast members from Friends are on a diet, something is happening...