ice~iced and cube~cubed

[David Bergdahl]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:

> >_cubed steak_ loses to _cube steak_ by a margin of 2:1.
>
> I've been following this thread, but only now thought of "chop meat" that
> my mother would buy.  It wasn't chopped meat nor did she ever call it
> hamburger.
>
Ditto: during ww2 we called it "chop meat"--perhaps b/c one never knew
what meat it was!
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