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Pages: 1 krick Get Fuzzy Reged: 02/09/04 Posts: 4235 Send PM Search Challenge: Hummingbird Wings on Toast #235404 - 10/03/10 07:40 AM Reply I recently heard a reference to a food item called "Hummingbird Wings on Toast". Does anyone know what the heck this is or where to find a recipe? Is your Google-fu strong? GroovyMAME support forum on BYOAC GatKong Tetris Mason Reged: 04/20/07 Posts: 5907 Loc: Sector 9 Send PM Re: Search Challenge: Hummingbird Wings on Toast [Re: krick] #235408 - 10/03/10 07:52 AM Reply The Answer The Recipie Yum, Yum. Them's good eating. Stiletto They're always after me Lucky ROMS! Reged: 03/07/04 Posts: 6472 Send PM Re: Search Challenge: Hummingbird Wings on Toast [Re: GatKong] #235410 - 10/03/10 08:05 AM Reply > The Answer > > The Recipie > > Yum, Yum. Them's good eating. Really doubt that answer, dude. Looks promising: http://books.google.com/books?id=eGERAAAACAAJ It honestly sounds like a figure of speech. http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARRIAGE/MAN4HER.TXT http://www.olgoat.com/substuff/dex192.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=dACOTxK...ast&f=false http://www.google.com/search?q=%22humming+birds+wings%22+toast+site:alibris.com [EDIT] Okay, got it: http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=23984962&postcount=362 http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=23988206&postcount=365 - Stiletto Edited by Stiletto (10/03/10 08:21 AM) krick Get Fuzzy Reged: 02/09/04 Posts: 4235 Send PM Re: Search Challenge: Hummingbird Wings on Toast [Re: GatKong] #235416 - 10/03/10 08:21 AM Reply I don't believe either of those are correct. The first just responds with a generic answer about "The Hummingbird" and links to the same recipe that you linked. I'm looking for "Hummingbird Wings on Toast". GroovyMAME support forum on BYOAC krick Get Fuzzy Reged: 02/09/04 Posts: 4235 Send PM Re: Search Challenge: Hummingbird Wings on Toast [Re: Stiletto] #235419 - 10/03/10 08:30 AM Reply > It honestly sounds like a figure of speech. I think you're right. I think it's a flowery euphemism for an unobtainable exotic meal that would presumably be difficult to cook and/or prohibitively expensive. Or, in the case of the one link you posted, it can double as a sarcastic remark to shut up an overly curious child. I think it's intended to be humorous in an ironic way because it pairs something strange that nobody would bother trying to eat except maybe the impossibly wealthy (the hummingbird wings) with something mundane that common people would eat (the toast). The first usage fits the context in which I heard it used. Here's a book description from your Alibris link that kind of supports the euphemism idea: Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery Volume 10 Description: Very Good. Woman's Day Magazine has been around as long as I remember, it used to cost.35 it is still a magazine for the average cook that would like to serve something different but not humming birds wings on toast. This is an Encyclopedia in 10 volumes, they are $5. each buy the set for $40. Edited by krick (10/03/10 08:40 AM) GroovyMAME support forum on BYOAC Pages: 1

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