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Nightmares of blueberry cobbler
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Thu, 10 Feb, 2011 20.11 UTC

I wonder how cobbler came to mean a sort of pastry filled with cooked berries or other fruits? A cobbler is someone who fixes footwear. The idea of the semantic drift is truly staggering.

  • Repairing a shoe
  • Filling the shoe with a foot after reparation
  • Allowing the shoe to become a crumbly pastry
  • Detaching the foot from the remainder of the body
  • Allowing the meat of the foot to become vegetarian
  • Making sure the vegetarian items within the ex-shoe is now a fruit
  • Popping the whole thing into the oven
  • Feeding the result to southern geezers in casinos or upscale hotel buffets

Yeah.

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