authentic seed overload

[Jonathan Lighter]

In our kitchen this morning I discovered a package of hors-d'oeuvre type crackers whose label boasted "Authentic Seed Overload."

  After remonstrating with my wife for bringing such an evidently unstable and hazardous product into our home, I discovered - to my chagrin - that the phrase was equivalent to what used to be called "Real Sesame Seed Topping!"

  Surely this is a novel, and misleading, use of "overload."

  JL




---------------------------------
Never miss a thing.   Make Yahoo your homepage.

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org