"eat more X"

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:

> Evidently, Chick-Fil-A is claiming trademark rights to all "eat more X" expressions (evey though C-F-A's advertisements use the spelling "mor" and specify chicken).

But the perennial question is which came first, the chikin or the X?

LH

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