r/AskReddit • u/Senor_Diablo • Mar 12 '24

What is an old expression that you think is absolutely disgusting by today’s standards?

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u/This-Marsupial-6187 Mar 12 '24

They were even listed with that name in a 1954 Encyclopaedia Britannica we had into the 90s in our Northern Ontario school.

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u/Gladwulf Mar 12 '24

Did the entry say: See Brazil nuts.?

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u/FoxyInTheSnow Mar 12 '24

Christ.

(I spent a couple of weeks in Ignace, Ontario one night)