Nightmares of blueberry cobbler

Topics: absurdity, food

2011-02-10

I wonder how *cobbler* came to mean a sort of pastry filled with cooked berries or other fruits? A *cobbler* is someone who fixes footwear. The idea of the semantic drift is truly staggering.

Repairing a shoe

Filling the shoe with a foot after reparation

Allowing the shoe to become a crumbly pastry

Detaching the foot from the remainder of the body

Allowing the meat of the foot to become vegetarian

Making sure the vegetarian items within the ex-shoe is now a fruit

Popping the whole thing into the oven

Feeding the result to southern geezers in casinos or upscale hotel buffets

Yeah.

tzifur (Martenblog home)

jenju (Thurk.Org home)

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