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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.

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