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1. 20 days ago on Luann

   Exerpt from Bon Appetit:

   On the Etymology of the Word MayonnaiseWhy do we call mayo mayo? The word’s history, it turns out, is deliciously complicatedBY SAM DEAN

   April 4, 2013

   The real root of the creamy condiment, at least culinarily, is likely the original aioli (or allioli, in Catalan), the sauce made with just garlic, oil, and salt, mashed together in a mortar and pestle. The name means, literally, “garlic” (alh in Provencal) and “oil” (oli in the same), and has been made in southwestern France and northeastern Spain dating back, at least, to the time of Roman occupation. Mayonnaise adds egg and a little bit of vinegar to that mix, which makes for a more consistent sauce that won’t separate out into its constituent parts (as oil is wont to do).If you look in the Larousse Gastronomique, you’ll read that “mayonnaise” might be a corruption of moyeunaise, a theoretical missing link derived from the Old French moyeu, meaning “egg yolk.”And even in the early 1800s, there were theories floating around that the word was actually Bayonnaise, named after the French-Basque town of Bayonne, and that some mumbling and thick French accents had reduced that “b” down to the “m” of “mayonnaise.”

2. 25 days ago on Working Daze

   aha, thank you.

3. 26 days ago on Working Daze

   PT Barnham didn’t day it. That was Abe Lincoln.

4. 27 days ago on Wizard of Id

   nah, by then they will all be dead.

5. 27 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Just at dawn, put the whole nest into a trash bag. Turn it over and bag it again. Put it in the trash can. Take it out on trash pickup day.

6. 28 days ago on Robert Ariail

   “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time,” is a remark by Abraham Lincoln. I believe this is true because exactly one half of the people, by definition, have IQs under the average.

7. about 1 month ago on Jane's World

   You break it? We shock you with the bill!

8. about 1 month ago on Working Daze

   “What me worry?”

9. about 1 month ago on The Flying McCoys

   Shamrocks have only three leaves, not four.

10. about 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

    Jack Benny again is my bet!