A Few New Favorite Things

I have a new favorite burger.

I had the good fortune to meet my cousin and three of her children in Melbourne, Fl. this past weekend.  I don’t think I’ve seen her for 25 years and I’d never met her kiddies.  Of course, they’re all grown up and probably wouldn’t like me calling them kiddies, but I’m making up for lost time.  We met at an Irish pub called Meg O’Malley’s.  There were libations and laughs, and some darn good food.  And I found my new favorite burger, the Irish Breakfast Burger.  This mouth watering mammoth was simply too tempting to pass on.  Here’s how they dress up this half pound chargrilled  hunk of beef; rashers (bacon), bangers (sausage), grilled tomatoes, caramelized onions, Dubliner cheese, and topped off with a fried egg.   Now that is simply ridiculous!  And amazingly tasty!  As I took my first bite of that tricked out bovine on a bun an immaculate chorus of the heavenly host broke out in song and I knew that the Irish Breakfast Burger would be on the menu in heaven.  Of course, if one was to eat many of these cholesterol packed fat patties they would find out sooner than later if my heavenly assessment is true, but as you checked out your taste buds would be dancing!

My son recently introduced me to my new favorite word to say out loud; synecdoche.  For it’s pronunciation click here.  It just rolls off the tongue.  Thefreedictionary.com defines synecdoche as :

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

If I were to use it in a sentence I’d say; “Dang, if that weren’t but the best cow I ever did eat!”  In this sentence the word cow ( the whole) is used to represent the Irish Breakfast Burger (the part).  A synecdoche.  Therefore, I can use my new favorite word and my new favorite burger in the same paragraph.  Pretty cool!

As a side note, I bet that if Archimedes had known of the word synecdoche all those years ago he’d have  used it instead of “eureka” during his main street streak show, just 'cause it sounds so cool.  What, you don’t know the story of Archimedes?  Check it out here.

And lastly, I’d like to share everyone’s favorite palindrome in describing my new favorite burger.  Thefreedictinary.com defines palindrome as:

A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

it’s also defined as:

A segment of double-stranded DNA in which the nucleotide sequence of one strand reads in reverse order to that of the complementary strand.

Hm, interesting, but not applicable here.  I’m talking burgers.  The palindrome I reference is mm,mm, as in; “ That Irish Breakfast Burger was mm,mm good!”  If, in fact mm,mm is not a proper palindrome, then I’m claiming artistic license for this post.  I figure I can do that, being it’s my post and all.  If I have insulted any palindrome purists out there, then I apologize and I offer this bit of advice, get a grip.

Pictured below are the motley crew that partook of the aforementioned dining debauchery at Meg O’Malley’s.  It was, in deed, a good time.  If you must know, The Muller is in the middle.  If you look closely, you can tell he’s thinking of himself in the third person.  Go figure.  And please pardon this jaunt through the dictionary and the historical reference, the burger was simply that good.  Oh, and the family time? Well, even better.