moshey n.— «Moshey and belly-guts were also holiday treats. Moshey was both a term used to describe unpulled taffy as well as “clear toys”—candy made by boiling sugar in syrup.» —“Belsnickels & belly-guts: Holiday...
Welcome to another newsletter from A Way with Words. This one's full of soda-fountain goodness! Let's just say right out of the gate that, judging by the emails and phone calls, the top call for this past weekend's show was the one...
buddy adj.— «Syrup made from trees that have already started to open their buds is referred to as “buddy” syrup and it tastes pretty awful!» —“Now is the time to make maple syrup” by Bob Beyfuss Daily...
purple drank n.— «“Half these dudes dropped out of junior high,” he said, pointing to several friends standing with him sipping from plastic foam cups of “Purple Drank,” a brain-battering draft of prescription-strength codeine cough syrup...
diaper sandwich n.— «Janice Bourgeois Macomber, who insists that even people she has just met call her Aunt Boo, adds a spoonful of amber-colored cane syrup to cut the acid in her court bouillion, a tomato sauce that she uses to simmer...
master cleanse n.— «When Teron Beal, a songwriter and aspiring actor in Manhattan, was looking to drop weight quickly for a photo shoot, he didn’t double up on gym visits, gulp metabolic boosting pills or limit his diet to leafy greens...