Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
Larry Sheldon
LarrySheldon at COX.NET
Wed Mar 14 23:40:31 UTC 2012
On 3/14/2012 6:30 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> Hunh. For us survivors of summer camp in Maine (early 1950s), and
> probably elsewhere (and elsewhen), "bug juice" will forever designate
> oversweetened (if that's not oxymoronic) kool-aid type beverages,
> almost always red.
That is what I was thinking -- Bug Juice = Beverage, NOS
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