Did you ever wonder why we capitalize the pronoun “I,” but not any other pronoun? Also, the romantic story behind the term halcyon days, the origin of the phrase “like white on rice,” and the linguistic scuttlebutt on the...
White on rice isn’t a racist idiom. It likens closeness, stickiness, or being “all over” a task to white rice, long the default rice on many U.S. tables and often sticky. The expression shows up often in African American English, and Geneva...
Chicken bog is a Lowcountry and Southeastern US dish of rice, chicken, country sausage, and plenty of black pepper, often cooked in a big iron pot for a crowd. Joey in Greenville, South Carolina, remembers his father making it after work with slaw...
commod bod n.— «She also blamed the federal commodity program for low-income people that many American Indian families receive. The offerings include lots of pastas, rice and other high-carbohydrate foods that contribute to what Burger...
heli-mulching n.— «Rice straw dropped from a heavy-lift helicopter rained down like snow Monday on fire-blackened forest land north of Oroville in an effort to control erosion. The process, known as “heli-mulching,” is set to continue...
disco rice n.— «STEREOGUM: You mentioned that you learned “disco rice” is a term for maggots. Any idea how “disco rice” got its name? And why didn’t you ever name a band “disco rice”? NH: I really have...