Английская Википедия:Funistrada

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Шаблон:Short description Funistrada is a fictitious food item. The term was inserted in a U.S. Army survey of soldiers circa 1974[1] regarding their food preferences. Funistrada, along with a fake vegetable dish called "buttered ermal" and a fake meat dish called "braised trake", was inserted "to provide an estimate of how much someone will respond to a word which sounds like a food name or will answer without reading."[2]

Funistrada scored higher in popularity than eggplant, lima beans, and cranberry juice.[3][4] All three fake items, however, had the highest percentage of "never tried" responses.[5]

Appearances

  • Bill Bryson cited the food in his 1990 book Mother Tongue[6] as an example of a word that is made up for a specific purpose.
  • It appears in CHOW: A Cook's Tour of Military Food by Paul Dickson[7]
  • A restaurant in Northern Michigan has used the name Trattoria Funistrada since 2000.[8]
  • A Breeders' Cup horse took the name in 1985.[9]

See also

References

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