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Tales from tiny srah
When I was much younger and an avid reader of food packaging, I was always fond of diglycerides. Mostly this is because in my mind, "diglycerides" was pronounced "diggly-CER-uh-deez," which sounds like a totally awesome dinosaur. I still pronounce it that way in my head, although I've since learned the correct pronunciation and know better than to call them by their dinosaur name in public. Strangely enough, my brain has always pronounced "triglycerides" as "triglycerides" and has no desire to turn that ingredient into a three-horned version of the first dinosaur.
I got a kick out of the ingredients in Heinz ketchup, too, because they hyphenated the first ingredient and concluded it on the second line. There are toes in my ketchup! Toma- ones!
srah - Thursday, 6 April 2006 - 8:20 PM
Tags: childhood, food
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Fraulein N - April 10, 2006 - 11:32 AM - ℓ
I was always a big fan of low fructose corn syrup. Especially when it was the first ingredient listed.
It sounds very cool and hip to say "diggly/triggly-cer-a-deez" for some reason. It should be in a hip-hop song. For my part, I like saying "Riboflavin!" I also pronounce Toasteds crackers not like "toasted"s but like Toas-Teds.