Germans have a wonderful word for that mess of wires and cables under computer workstation. It’s Kabelsalat, literally “cable salad.” In Japanese, it’s takoashi haisen, or “octopus leg wire.” Electricians sometimes refer to a tangle of wires as a...
A Simi Valley, California, listener writes to ask if any other families use the term shaky cheese for “Parmesan cheese shaken out of a can.” Indeed they do, and other families apply the term scrapey cheese to “cheese scraped over a dish of food.”...
cutensil n.— «German design firms Authentics and Koziol have made much hay out of plastic’s new pizazz. Koziol’s spaghetti forks with a smiley face, ice-cream scoops with eyes and the “Tim” dish brush with legs are some of more than 300...
Spaghetti Bowl n.— «From the strip, take [15] North to the [93/95] North (to “Mercury”) through the Spaghetti Bowl (just look for all those annoying Fitzgerald’s billboards), stay in the right lane and exit Rancho, turn Right, head up about 1/2 a...
Spaghetti Bowl n.— «A complex web of pipelines known as the “Spaghetti Bowl” transports liquid and gaseous materials between the plants.» —“Houston Booms On Oil, Mud” in Washington Hartford Courant (Connecticut) Sept. 20, 1960. (source: Double...
Spaghetti Bowl n.— «Los Angeles’ four-level freeway interchange at Civic Center, sometimes called the Mixmaster, soon will have a companion complexity called the Spaghetti Bowl. Engineers already have hung that name on the $10 million East Los...