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  • noun A Turkish dish of aubergine stuffed with onion, garlic, and tomatoes then simmered in olive oil

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From Turkish imambayıldı

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  • The priest fainted!

    July 10, 2007

  • Ha. Reminds me of a type of Italian pasta called strozzapreti--translates to "choke a priest." ;-)

    July 10, 2007

  • This is the only dish I can think of whose name is a complete sentence. I can think of foods whose names are descriptive phrases (e.g., pig-in-a-blanket), but no others with a subject and a verb.

    July 11, 2007