"Awesome Blossom"

[Alice Faber]

Joel S. Berson wrote:
> At 8/2/2007 07:38 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>> I had a similar reaction when I first encountered the "Awesome Blossom"
>>  fried onion appetizer at one of those interchangeable chain
>> restaurants (Ruby Tuesday?).
>
> Did "they" do "Ahsum Blahsum" or "Awsum Blawsum"?  (I couldn't and
> wouldn't do either! says a New Yorker by youth.)

Well, that's clearly the intent. But it doesn't work well for those of
us who have different vowels in the two words.


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