farmer’s blow
n.— «He it a couple of times, blowing it out with the “farmer’s blow” method several times before I tried it myself. enter foolish act here I stuck the peanut not half way up my nose, but ALL the way up my nose.…I pushed, pulled, and tried to “farmer blow” it out, but I just couldn’t.» —“Oohhh, this could be messy, overlook this supposed crime” by glassbottle11 Miss Laura’s Journal (Wisconsin) Mar. 15, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Sara in Madison, Wisconsin, was reading an old edition of The Joy of Cooking and came across a recipe that described a cake’s ingredients as earrings for an elephant. She couldn’t discern whether the authors meant that was a good thing...
After our conversation about wishing well eggs, a listener from Viroqua, Wisconsin, chimes in with another name for this egg-in-toast dish: UFOs, short for Unidentified Frying Objects. This is part of a complete episode.
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