luncheon

MIKADO. Now, let's see about your execution--will
after luncheon suit you? Can you wait till then?
KO-KO, PITTI-SING, and POOH-BAH. Oh, yes--we can wait till then!
MIKADO. Then we'll make it after luncheon.
POOH-BAH. I don't want any lunch.
MIKADO. I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

-- W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

(that last line is one of the best in the entire language, seconded only closely by Westley in the Princess Bride: "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says otherwise is only trying to sell something.")

I love olive loaf!

Wait, maybe I said that too loudly....

Speaking of which, is there a list of luncheon meats yet? I could use some olive loaf.

Edit: Aw, heck, I just went ahead and added it as an open list. Enjoy!

(And, disturbingly, when I Wikipedia'd olive loaf to make sure it was what I meant, I encountered this line: "This meat-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." Which reminded me of those priapic aquatic elves again...)

Hey. I didn't bring up luncheon meats.

Wait...that doesn't sound right.

Another much-loved food abandoned after it gets the Wordie Treatment. So sad....

THANK YOU, skipvia, for making me laugh out loud at work in my CUBICLE, whereupon everyone asks 'what's so funny?' like they have ANY RIGHT to view priapic elves in an X-rated synchronized swimming event!

I will never eat beenie weenies again without thinking of luncheon meats. Or maybe I'll just never eat beenie weenies ag... wait. I never did!

OK--I guess sometimes a hot dog sticking straight up from a vat of pork 'n' beans is just a hot dog sticking straight up from...

Nope...can't buy it. It still looks like an X-rated synchronized swimming event to me.

They could be exceptionally large, rough-hewn toothpicks, you know.

Can you imagine not breaking into peals of laughter if you saw that in a buffet line? It looks like a bunch of priapic elves doing the backstroke.

Pork 'n' beans!

Mmmm...luncheon meats.

I like this word halfheartedly ONLY when used ironically and followed by meats. Luncheon meats just cracks me up. It feels like an old lady word. Like parlor.

This is a word only the Victorians were qualified to say.

Skipvia, are you feeling a little hostile today? ;-)

Strangely enough, nuncheon also sounds like something you'd use to smack someone--kind of a cross between nunchucks and a truncheon.

How do you feel about nuncheon?

Like a truncheon, only with mustard and mayo. ;-)

Right up there with eatery on my list. It sounds like something you'd use to smack someone.

This might be my absolute least favorite word.