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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From the Boston Globe Magazine January 25, 2009: A story about looking up old lovers on Facebook
“His memory of me was of a wonton seductress who owned her sexuality. . . ” I guess they were careful, else she might have “grown big-bellied with the wonton wind” from the mysterious East. Perhaps they sailed along the bounding mein?
OK, I don’t suppose it’s an eggcorn, and it may just be a typo. Googling “wonton” got me nowhere. But I’ve rarely laughed so hard at any actual eggcorn.
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Well, you know, “the quickest way to a man’s heart” and all that—I guess wontons would work as well as anything. They’d probably work on me—at least the spicy ones.
I ran into a curious claim in the Wikipedia article on wontons:
In Minnesota, Louisiana, California, Virginia, Florida, Illinois, New York and parts of Iowa, fried wontons are often filled with cream cheese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonton
My first thought was, “All of California, but only parts of Iowa? Which parts?” And my second thought was, “Hey, that’s almost certainly original research! A clear violation of Wikipedia rules!” In any case, I’m pretty sure my local municipality has a law against cream-cheese-filled fried wontons.
Last edited by patschwieterman (2009-01-26 23:12:09)
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