What's Slang Jang? (minicast) - 8 Oct. 2009

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🗓️ 8 October 2009

⏱️ 7 minutes

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No, it's not the neurological effect of spending too much time researching odd new terms. Slang jang is a tongue-tickling sauce found in East Texas. For more about slang jang, including recipes, check out etymologist Barry Popik's site. http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/slang_jang/ -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	Grant Barrett is at home. He's cooking up a big mess of slang
0:54.9	jang. Now what you may ask is slang-jang? Well it's not a condition of a dictionary
1:00.6	editor's nerves after a long day researching strange terms.
1:05.0	Slang Jang is a tongue-tickling sauce that's popular in East Texas.
1:09.7	Well, here, better to have one of our collars tell you about it. This is Mark and he's from Dallas.
1:14.6	Mark tell us what's in this recipe.
1:16.9	Okay, it's chopped tomatoes, green peppers, onions, vinegar, water, salt and pepper, sugar,
1:26.0	and you put it in the refrigerator overnight,
1:29.0	then you strain this sauce up out
1:32.0	and you put it on your black eye peas and it makes black eye peas
1:36.4	taste so much better.
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