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They're lutherburgers.
Beef, cheese, bacon, and doughnut sandwiches. Could it get any worse than this?
...these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber. Among the Dutch whalemen these scraps are called "fritters"; which, indeed, they greatly resemble, being brown and crisp, and smelling something like old Amsterdam housewives' dough-nuts or oly-cooks, when fresh.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 65
Not in my county, but Fairfax is known for doing its own thing.
Jennarenn: I'm curious, is Formula Phonics still a viable, used system at the elementary school level? It was in use where I did my student teaching and then full-on partial year of teaching in a 4-5 combination classroom.
Yep. English is a mishmash, all right.
Actually, I think English could do with some additional simplification. It would make my job a lot easier! Case in point: /ough/.
So is changing word spelling to almost phonetic simplicity--like, say, Krispy Kreme. ;->
Regardless of the spelling, anything fried is pretty American.
I have to disagree. I would say Dunkin Donuts is the epitome of Americana.
Donut is not the American spelling