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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007soemthing with beer
What the name of the food that come or ordered with beer.. like Chips and souce .. it has a name and I guess it is like Monchee or something.. any idea please > What the name of the food that come or ordered with beer.. like > Chips and souce .. it has a name and I guess it is like Monchee or > something.. any idea please I think the word you're looking for is "munchies", i.e., something to munch on. The word can also refer to a mild state of hunger, so if someone says they've "got the munchies", it's ambiguous between them having brought the chips for the party or wishing that whoever was going to would show up already.  SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |Other computer companies have spent 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |15 years working on fault-tolerant Palo Alto, CA 94304 |computers. Microsoft has spent |its time more fruitfully, working kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com |on fault-tolerant *users*. (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ The esara123@hotmail.com entity posted thusly: >What the name of the food that come or ordered with beer.. like Chips >and souce .. it has a name and I guess it is like Monchee or >something.. any idea please You may be thinking of "munchies". It's a non specific term meaning "light snacks". They might be nuts, chips (BrE: crisps), wings (chicken wings), etc. The word comes from "munch" meaning to chew or eat. Another meaning for munchies is "somewhat hungry", as in "I have the munchies. Let's get some wings." esara123@hotmail.com filted: >What the name of the food that come or ordered with beer.. like Chips >and souce .. it has a name and I guess it is like Monchee or >something.. any idea please Others have already provided the generic term "munchies"...a food made of chips with a kind of sauce, and often ordered with beer would be "nachos"....r Signature"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!" "You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!" On 26 Jan 2007, R H Draney wrote > esara123@hotmail.com filted: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > food made of chips with a kind of sauce, and often ordered with > beer would be "nachos"....r Another common one -- covering nuts and various small savoury things -- would be "nibblies". SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > esara123@hotmail.com filted: >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Others have already provided the generic term "munchies"...a food made of chips Which name, for the record, has now been trademarked-or-whatever by Frito-Lay for a line of snacks. http://www.fritolay.com/images/cm/mid_products_munchies2.gif SignatureBlinky > esara123@hotmail.com filted: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > made of chips with a kind of sauce, and often ordered with beer would > be "nachos"....r Another common (though reversed) beer phrase: pretzels and beer. But the phrase that sprang to my mind was "beer and skittles" -- and I'm not British. See: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/230200.html or http://tinyurl.com/3y5j4g There's some sort of candy called Skittles, by the way. I don't think they/it go/goes particularly well with beer. SignatureMaria Resident of southeast Michigan, near Detroit; native of east Tennessee. There's only one 'n' in my email address, and it's not in my first name. (The email address I use in this newsgroup is munged.) > What the name of the food that come or ordered with beer.. like Chips > and souce .. it has a name and I guess it is like Monchee or > something.. any idea please Snacks. |
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