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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...
The tradition also gives the option of topping the fruit cobbler with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream. [3] Savory cobblers are less common in the region; for example, tomato cobbler, which may include onion and a biscuit topping that may include cheese or cornmeal, is one savory variant that also resembles Southern tomato pie . [ 9 ]
They have a golden brown, glazed exterior and a moderately sweet pastry, but their defining characteristic is the layer of squashed fruit which gives rise to the colloquial names fly sandwiches, flies' graveyards, dead fly biscuits, [4] squashed fly biscuits, or in New Zealand, fly traps, because the squashed fruit resemble squashed flies.
Whether you're on the road or don't feel like preparing a big feast, here are fast-food places open on Thanksgiving, from Taco Bell to Burger King to Subway.
The value of U.S. power and utilities deals fell over the last year to $27.8 billion, down by 36% from 2023, as political uncertainty ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election slowed transactions ...
In the 30-second slot, the Doughboy is 'born' out of a cracked-open can of Pillsbury dough, after which he utters his first words, "Hi! I'm Poppin' Fresh, the Pillsbury Doughboy!"
Duff is a Bahamian cuisine dessert dish made with fruit (especially guava) in a dough. [1] Fruit is folded into the dough and boiled, then served with a sauce. Ingredients include fruit, butter, sugar, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, flour, rum, pepper, and baking powder. Duff is also an English term for pudding.