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We used to have quite a few tea rooms in Richmond where lunch was served. Lunch, not tea. One was called the Clover Room, and one of its specialties was the shrimp salad sandwich made of chopped shrimp, a little celery, mayo and lettuce on a choice of toasted or untoasted white bread. The shrimp salad was thick and yummy. My figure was slender, if not yummy, and I never gave the high caloric content of the mayo a single thought.
Every now and then I make my own shrimp salad sandwiches, but the lack of the Clover Room itself somehow diminishes my enjoyment. To avoid continuing a food thread, what's another word for melancholy over the loss of the good in the old days?
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retrosexual owes its definition, perhaps its very existence, to last year's buzzword, metrosexual.
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I would assume that 'dropping your pants' is the equivalent of putting out, I mean selling out your values, to get what you want.
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metrosexual
The definition I’ve heard for the buzzword ‘metrosexual’ is when heterosexuals (particularly males) affect a homosexual appearance in both style of dress and mannerisms. Wikipedia indicates that the word was originally coined in 1994 by British journalist Mark Simpson, who defines it as:
“an urban heterosexual male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. He is the fashion-conscious target audience of men's magazines.
Regardless of which definition is correct, as I mentioned regarding the word ‘retrosexual,’ metrosexual doesn’t seem to fit its definition. Metrosexual would seem to imply a sexuality specifically pertaining to an urban environment (or perhaps a railway environment), which is distinctly different from hetero-, homo-, or bi- sexuality (all of which encompass the act of sex). Metrosexuality seems to deal only with appearance and only marginally pertains to an urban environment.
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I love banana sandwiches, but it would never have occurred to me to mix them with peanut butter. But then to my ears the US staple peanut butter and jelly sandwich sounds bizarre. To me the primary meaning of jelly is what I believe is known as jello in the US.
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I can imagine why a peanut butter and jello sandwich wouldn't sound all that appetizing! ~Horrors~ 
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Well, toasted peanut butter, banana and strawberry jam sandwiches are simply delicious. Add bacon to that and I'm stuffed for the day.
You guys have inadvertantly brought up a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't have these often, you can imagine the arteries clogging just reading this mixture, but every once in a while I make a special detour to pick up the ingredients for the next morning's breakfast.
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Aha! Perhaps you can understand, as few can, why the thin layer of peanut butter on a club/bacon, lettuce, tomato sammich makes it taste soooooo much better!?
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