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Crackerjack
Cracker dispenser on the inside of pantry door facilitates pantry scouraging. | |
This convenient stainless steel dispenser hangs on the inside of a pantry door and is stocked with the crackers of your choice. Crank the Crackerjack and a cracker comes out to munch on while you look for something to munch on.
If you can understand this, it might be similar...
http://www.patentst...6722526-claims.html
[xandram, Oct 23 2007]
Crackerjack!
http://www.whirligi...ack/crackerjack.htm
It's a UK thing, (sheesh I'm showing my age.) [skinflaps, Oct 23 2007]
Crackerjack
http://www.crackerjack.com/home.htm
What Crackerjack means to most North Americans. [Canuck, Oct 23 2007]
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Aside from copyright issues with the name, the only question I have is does it play music when you turn the crank to make the cracker come out?
edit:(Pop Goes The Weasel) |
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// did you mean Foraging? // |
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I wondered about that myself... + |
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scouraging is an interesting amalgam of several words, i'm thinking. "scrouge" means to crowd around or into... appropriate for cupboards. "scourge" of course, means to whip or beat severely and i'm not sure what use that has within the context of snacks, but stranger things have happened. then of course, there's "scrooge," which refers to the nasty habit of holding out on someone, which is what scrouged up cupboards do and they should be scourged for it, thus 'dis'-scouraging them from doing it in future. |
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I never realised until now that 'scouraging' wasn't in the dictionary. Wonder who invented it then? Or is there an alternate spelling? Anyway, it's what animals do when looking for food in garbage bins and the like. |
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[Edit: I'm guessing its an amalgam of scour and foraging] |
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Hah! I didn't know I was being so sloppy with words. The insights and corrections are appreciated... I was indeed thinking along boysparks' terms, though k_sra has a good point! |
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