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#1 2020-11-24 02:26:29

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"roast history" << rotisserie

I encountered this online:

Aye do them roast history chickens at walmart be good??? [and then in response to a request for clarification] roast history chickens the ones that be in the deli
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Almost all the examples yielded by googling were references to the example I gave above. The few possible exceptions include:

Roast History Chicken is THE BEST. looked like you enjoyed it.
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...and these last two, both from this discussion :

Anyone ever get those roast-history chickens for only a couple bucks at Walmart or Costco?

I worked in a grocery mart and was tasked with putting the birds into the roast-history machine. It kind of turned me off of buying them, because the machine was very dirty, and I wouldn’t clean it properly.

Apart from finding very few examples, I think this could qualify as an eggcorn, as those roasted chickens at the store clearly have a (hopefully recent) “roast history”.

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#2 2020-12-01 12:07:51

kem
Eggcornista
From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2887

Re: "roast history" << rotisserie

These might be intentional misconstruals. But funny ones!


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2021-02-20 09:50:00

Eoin
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Registered: 2006-04-11
Posts: 37

Re: "roast history" << rotisserie

I thought of the cooking on a turned spit distinction being the way people in history books cooked, so roast history chicken would make sense,

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