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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Plenty of examples of this switch on the web. Think of it as the extension of a culinary euphemism: “lamb” for “baby sheep” (who wants to eat a baby?) and “chomps” for “chops” (removes the focus from the violence of slaughter to the act of eating).
Blog entry about food: “It was incredible– just look at the pics above. Have you ever seen more beautful lamb chomps ? Well, have you? The pics do not do justice to the flavor.â€
Review of cruise: “I had a shrimp cocktail which literally contained two shrimp, but my lamb chomps were rather nice.â€
Indian restaurant menu: “Parlak Lamb Chomps,â€
Review of Istanbul restaurants: “Özbek Rice—rice cooked together with lamb-chomps and dried onionsâ€
Malaysian newspaper: “Try to count sheep for example, and you might start seeing lamb chomps trotting past in your head.â€
(An irreverent aside: do the cultures that eat dogs serve Lab chops in their restaurants?)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Probably.
Good one. Like chicken bites. It may have been born as a kind of happy consonant transplantation. The unnatural lamp chops is surprisingly common too, though it clearly won’t catch on. Lab and lap chomps are nearly absent, thank goodness.
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