Pigging out at Golden Corral's "troth"

[Barbara Need]

(I am way behind on reading my e-mail.)

I regularly heard [trOT] on weather reports in Chicago (when I still
had TV reception and a local news channel). Channel 7, Jerry ? (before
2010).

Barbara

Barbara Need
Etna, NY

On 9 Jul 2013, at 5:55 AM, W Brewer wrote:

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> A crucial question is: How are they PRONOUNCING the word they spell
> <troth>?  Are they still pronouncing it [troff]? Maybe they have
> simply
> upgraded the spelling, robbed from the grave of an obsolete, zero-
> frequency
> word. Fink there's some truf in this idear?
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> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 7/8/2013 07:17 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>> On Jul 8, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
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>>>> I remember the days when my mother, brother, sister, and I would go
>> with
>>>> our aunt to visit my great-grandmother at the retirement home,
>>>> and take
>>>> her to Golden Corral for lunch. We couldn't go anywhere else,
>>>> because
>> if
>>>> we did, every 10 minutes or so during our meal, my g-grandmother
>>>> would
>>>> interrupt with, "This isn't where we usually go, is it?"
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, it seems GC has jumped into the news with an employee-made
>> video
>>>> of foodbeing stored next to a dumpster. A guy named Mackinley
>>>> Greenlaw
>>>> comments on it in a one-minute video, and 15 seconds in, refersto
>>>> GC's
>>>> "literal [sic] troth [sic] of deeply saturated factory-farmed food
>>>> gobs".
>>>
>>>> The /trOT/ pronunciation was new to me. It's also unclear exactly
>>>> what he means by "deeply saturated". I figure the idea of
>>>> "saturated
>>>> fat" was probably in MG's mind when he said this, but it seems to
>>>> have
>>>> mutated fromfats saturated with hydrogen bonds (or whatever it
>>>> is)to
>>>> food saturated with fat, or grease or oil.
>>>>
>>>>
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>> http://www.examiner.com/video/this-may-make-you-think-twice-about-eating-at-golden-corral
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>>>
>>> So you're saying that if it's not actually a *literal* troth of
>>> deeply saturated factory-farmed food gobs, at least it's a matter of
>>> trothiness.
>>>
>>> LH
>>
>> They're plighted to it.  And "deeply saturated" is perhaps
>> picturesquely evocative of the deep fryer that creates
>> highly-saturated fats (and by the latter I mean the customers).
>>
>> Joel
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