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Cafeteria
Part A
There are many words hidden in the word cafeteria. Look for a food-related word that fits each definition below. For each answer, you may use only the letters in cafeteria. For each answer, you may also use each letter only as often as it appears in cafeteria.
1.Except for toddlers who play with their food, what most other people do at meal time:
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2.A type of cheese made from goat’s milk: ____________________________
3.What the British drink with crumpets: ____________________________
4.To serve food for special events, like weddings: ____________________________
5.Something Jack Sprat could not eat: ____________________________
6.Though some people gag at even the thought of it, many people love eating this part of a pig after pickling: ____________________________
7.Where the French go for lunch: __________________________
8.A glass container used to serve coffee: ____________________
9.A side dish common with Mexican, Indian or Asian food: ____________________________
10.A cooler isn’t going to do you much good without this: ____________________________
Part B
Now add 10 of your own definitions to this puzzle. You need not be limited to items with foodrelated answers, though. Your definitions can refer to any word that can be made from the letters in cafeteria.
Where do baby cows eat their lunch?
In a calf-eteria.
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Cheesy Rhymes
Gilbert K. Chesterton, an early 20th century English writer, once said, “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
That is true. Most poets don’t put cheese at the top of their list when it comes to topics for poems. James McIntyre (1827-1906), however, did. He wrote many poems about cheese. Sadly, they were bad poems, but poems nonetheless. Here’s one stanza from his “Ode on the Mammoth Cheese”:
We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze,
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
Now it’s your turn. Write a rhyming poem about cheese, using any rhyme scheme you like.
Here are some cheese-related words and phrases to get you started thinking “cheesily”:
cheddar |
Muenster |
Gouda |
mold |
fondue |
Limburger |
bleu cheese |
Swiss |
Parmesan |
rind |
American |
cream |
goat’s milk |
curds |
cottage |
ferment |
Brie |
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mozzarella |
Edam |
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Bonus. For a bigger challenge, write a Shakespearean sonnet scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet is abab / cdcd / efef / gg.
What do you call cheese that belongs to someone else?
Nacho cheese.
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Olivia’s Cafe
In the box below is a very detailed description of Olivia’s Café. The problem is, it is too detailed. The details are thrown out randomly, with no rhyme or reason to their selection.
When describing something, it is a good idea to select details carefully to create a certain impression or to fill a certain purpose. For example, if you want to show that a classroom feels very serious and disciplined, you would not mention the jokes pinned up on the bulletin board. You might mention how all the students have their heads bent over their books and how all the rows are absolutely straight, with the shades adjusted to exactly the same height.
Rewrite the description of Olivia’s Café, below, choosing details that fill one of the following purposes:
•to show that Olivia’s Café is a healthy, nutritious place to eat.
•to show that people will love the inviting, friendly atmosphere of Olivia’s Café.
Feel free to rearrange or delete details in whatever way makes the most sense for your purpose.
Olivia’s Café has cheerful yellow walls that invite people in. There is often a slight chlorine smell, but that is because of the staff’s attention to cleanliness. There is a giant picture of Johnsonville painted on one wall. It shows every important building in town. The restaurant serves only whole grains. Smoothies are made with fresh fruit served in red tumblers decorated with rainbows. The owner, Olivia, has a cute dog name Henrikens, and she goes home every day at 1:00 to feed and pet him. She loves Henrikens more than about anything. All the sandwiches are made from whole grain breads and organic produce grown locally with no pesticides. Everything is artfully arranged and served on colorful red plates. The kitchen is stainless steel, and it sparkles. The health department gave the kitchen a “15,” its highest mark for healthful practices. No trans fats are used in the cooking. The tables have white tablecloths and fresh flowers in the center.
little groupings. Sunshine streams through the windows. The door usually parks his beat up Ford pick-up in front of the winfor diabetics or people with wheat allergies. People often sit
it is so pleasant. Kids come in on dates. Ladies lunch there. servers wear cheerful red shirts in keeping with the red and
shirts are always ironed and spotlessly clean. People love the are made with fresh fruit. If you are worried about kids havsugar, come here. Nothing has added sugar here; everything is naturally. No pizza is served here. Too bad! My favorite is
and mushroom, but my dad always wants to get ham and pineapple. Yuck! At least that’s better than anchovy—the worst! We usually order our pizza from the Pepperoni Palace. It’s
right next door to Olivia’s.
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Overstuffed sentences
Have you ever tried to read something that was stuffed with big words? It was probably pretty hard to understand. Sometimes people mistakenly think that long, fancy-sounding words will make their writing sound more intelligent and important. Instead, their writing is just hard to understand.
Sometimes a big or unusual word is the best choice, but too many “polysyllabic” or obscure words can cloud the meaning of your writing. In general, simple is clearer.
Pompous and unclear:
His gargantuan repast left him feeling distended and flatulent.
Simple and to the point:
His big meal left him bloated and gassy.
Pompous and unclear:
Your culinary production is indubitably delectable.
Simple and to the point:
Your cooking is really delicious.
Rewrite the sentences below so that they are simple, clear statements. You may use your dictionary to decode the long or obscure words.
1.The beef bourguignonne made my olfactory receptors twitch.
2.The vessel was laden with leguminous vegetables.
3.Most cuisine will be gustatorily enhanced with the supplementation of redolent allium.
4.She overindulged her ravenousness at the smorgasbord, resulting in emesis.
5.Although he wasn’t rapacious, he gormandized five concave receptacles of an amalgamation of semolina and a liquid oxide of hydrogen.
6.You really comprehend how to prime victuals for consumption on the accessory heated by pieces of porous carbon or a gaseous fossil fuel.
7.I venerate any hominid who can concoct a satisfactory ambrosial composite.
8.Desist from being eminently fastidious regarding your provisions
masticate unprecedented edible substances.
9.If I garnered a note of currency equaling one hundred of the mal monetary units for every occasion someone queried me you have a yearning to acquire fragments of a starchy tuber been submerged in scalding unctuous liquid to accompany meal?”, I’d be affluent.
“Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word
when there is a ten-center handy, ready, and able.”
10. Where’s the confectionery that is customarily proffered |
—William Strunk, Jr. |
at the cessation of ingesting the principal sustenance? |
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