gutbomb

gutbomb
 n.β€” Β«In Canada, the decidedly lower-class poutine generally came to the table as fries drenched in gravy, minus any such exotica as cheese curds. Here it’s apparently an in-joke hommage to the Canadian origins of co-owner Doug Washington, who refers to it as a “horrible dishβ€”a gutbomb” but ruefully admits that the version cooked up by co-owners and chefs Mitchell and Steven Rosenthal is “better than what I had in Canada.”Β» β€”β€œThe Maddening Crowd” by Meredith Brody SF Weekly (San Francisco, California) May 23, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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