Sunday 25 September 2011

Short Lists

I haven't done one of these for a month, so here's one that sprang to mind when my wife went all posh on us when deciding which cheese to grate over her spaghetti:

Types of food which sound like anagrams of each other and may even look similar but taste quite different

To get the ball rolling, I submit parmesan/marzipan.

16 comments:

Electro-Kevin said...

Food that sounds the same but tastes quite different ?

Banana/vagina

dearieme said...

salmon/almond

James Higham said...

Getting a bit naughty here.

Mark Wadsworth said...

EK, are you sure that a hairy pie actually is a type of food?

D, good one. Even more fascinating is that German for "almond" is "mandel", which again is nearly an anagram.

JH, don't blame me.

dearieme said...

lemon/melon

dearieme said...

truite/treat

Mark Wadsworth said...

D, lemon/melon, brilliant. The other ones a bit obscure.

Tim Worstall said...

mincemeat/ mince meat

Mark Wadsworth said...

TW, good one. I wonder whether there is a type of bread called "sweet bread"?

Anonymous said...

there's sour dough

Anonymous said...

Haricot/Haribo

Swede/Seaweed/Suede

Dolcelatte/Boiled Tatty

SBC

Anonymous said...

Marathon/Snickers
Opal Fruits/Cif

Anonymous said...

(nb I may have missed the point)

catinthehat

Mark Wadsworth said...

JP, you seem to have the same problem as EK distinguishing between 'types of food' and 'bodily orifices'.

SBC, good ones.

CITH, yes, way off piste; I'ts Opal Fruits/Starburst but
"Jif/Cif, formerly known as Jif" is possibly a stroke of genius (if that's what you actually meant). I'd forgotten about that one.

Anonymous said...

You just reminded me:

Margarine/Magritte


:-/

Mark Wadsworth said...

Magherita/Magarita cocktail/pizza, not sure which is the correct spelling for either, but sound the same/taste different.