Eggcorn Forum

Shopping for burn-your-face-off goodness at my local Indian food store, I came across the following product:

Better maintain altitude! There are hundreds of similar imputations of antiaircraft firepower for these little seeds on the web. No first-perpetrator accounts were found so I’m putting this one on the slips thread to maintain home-free status; it could be a common mondegreen, though I’m leaning toward eggcorn status. Once soaked, flax seeds do make great shrapnel if you pinch them between your fingers and direct them at your brother’s face. Or maybe they’re thinking of flax’s well known ability to put the ackack to the large colon and loosen up stubborn enemy blockades.

A bonus that I didn’t notice until I looked closely at this image is the fabulously inept translation into French. Flax in Toulouse is « lin », as in linseed. Someone unfamiliar with both has looked up flak seed in their French-English dictionary and come up with “critical seed”. Flak seed : high in omega-3 fatty acids and disapprobation.