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Example sentences for: eggplant

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I, for example, use the words eggplant and kumquat more often in my writing than other words...
French names for foods are common: poulet frit fried chicken Kentucky; moules mussels; frites French fries; poutine French fries with curd cheese and gravy (named after a Colonel Poutine who was in charge of provisions at the Siege of Quebec in 1749; at the end, the only stores remaining were potatoes, cheese, and chicken stock; local folk etymology has it from putain, putanesca ); aubergine eggplant (the usual word in Britain); jarret de boeuf shin of beef; caribou a fortified sweet wine, etc.
To add to this insanity, there is no butter in buttermilk , no egg in eggplant , neither worms nor wood in wormwood , and no ham in a hamburger . (In fact, if somebody invented a sandwich consisting of a ham patty in a bun, we would have a hard time finding a name for it.)
Not with the menu, but with the magnificent display sprawled across a long table as you enter: seafood antipasti, stuffed eggplant and zucchini, grilled peppers in red, yellow, and green, and whatever bounty this morning’s market yielded.
It is not hard to see why publicity- and work-hungry actresses might like ubiquitous, but it would be wise to give up attempts at analysis before coping with eggplant and kumquat, though Frumkes does suggest that they reflect a proclivity for ovoid objects.