Re: #57 - "Preposition Cook"
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 12:56 pm
Never in a million years. What's "beans on toast"? Do people eat that?
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I have never heard of beans on toast, chicken under a brick, or toad in the hole so there was no hope for me either. I kept trying to make sous chef work, since sous is a French preposition, and chef is a cook.
British people (same ones that gave us toad in the hole) do.
Shoot - I did worry about that a little, but thought that because there was no obvious way to pair any of the other foods with a preposition - and because those three foods, placed in three symmetric grid entries, were paired with prepositions that spell out one of the most widely known French words imaginable, that would be enough to confirm that none of the other food in the grid was involved. Sorry if this ended up being misleading.Beth Tyrpin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:54 pm I saw all three, but didn’t get it because I wanted to use all the food.
No worries. It’s unusual to have a three letter answer and I just didn’t get this one.pgw wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 2:11 pmShoot - I did worry about that a little, but thought that because there was no obvious way to pair any of the other foods with a preposition - and because those three foods, placed in three symmetric grid entries, were paired with prepositions that spell out one of the most widely known French words imaginable, that would be enough to confirm that none of the other food in the grid was involved. Sorry if this ended up being misleading.Beth Tyrpin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:54 pm I saw all three, but didn’t get it because I wanted to use all the food.
I could have changed KIPPERS easily (though as one solver pointed out, it ended up being a rather fitting red "herring" - not an intentional pun but I'll take it ...); MAC ATTACK and MANIOC ended up being pretty forced by the constraints on the fill, at least as far my constructing abilities go.