[Sca-cooks] Paschal Beets

[Jennifer Whitbeck]

--- Philip Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> On Monday 17 September 2001 11:56, Jennifer Whitbeck
> wrote:
>
> With regard, though, to the idea of a ritual
> substitution being based on a
> rhyme in English, stranger things have been known to
> happen. For example, a
> lot of the food symbolism in Southern China is
> based, more or less, on
> homonyms and puns. Shrimp, for example, are symbolic
> of laughter and joy for
> many people because they sound ("har") like
> laughter.

Maybe it's a visual thing; shrimp look kind of like
smiley shapes.   ;->

Instead of emoticons, there could be foodicons, like
the mandrake.

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