slew?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not a "right chancet"?

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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I'd say mashed potatoes would more properly belong to a passel.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:31:02 -0400
>From: Hillary Brown
>Subject: slew?
>>
>>From a dining blurb in the New Yorker:
>
>"Montauk bluefish, with Trapani truffle salt, for instance, is accompanied by a slew of woodsy mushrooms and mashed potatoes that possesses a surprising depth of flavor."
>
>Can mashed potatoes be part of a slew?
>
>hb

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