Trouble with “Sausage Biscuit”
Since I’ve been getting up earlier over the past few months I’ve found that it’s harder to skip breakfast when you get to work at eight and eat four plus hours later. So on most days I have something at home, or go to the café downstairs for a sausage biscuit. ($1.49 tax included and generally pretty good — not nearly as greasy as a McDonalds’ sausage biscuit)
The problem is that at 8:30am I find it exceedingly difficult to say “sausage biscuit” clearly without inserting a few syllables into “sausage.” “Sausasage,” or maybe “Saus… sausssagebiscuit” is what normally comes out. I stumble over it and smile, and the woman who runs the cafe smiles and echoes, “Sausage biscuit?” in good, articulate form. I nod and smile; she serves one up.
I seem to have become a regular now, though. Sometime over Thanksgiving she realized that I only order one thing in the mornings, and yesterday and today I was greeted with, “Sausage biscuit?” “Yep.” Yep. Now there’s a word I can manage at 8:30am. Let’s just hope she doesn’t go on vacation.
December 1st, 2005 at 7:01 pm
I think I know why you have trouble speaking, P. Your parent must’ve had you drinking out of sippy cups well into your teenage years. As this article states, those sippy cups can be a real hazard…. BEWARE THE SIPPY CUP!!!
December 1st, 2005 at 8:26 pm
As a toddler I read the study mentioned in the article — “Nursing-bottle Syndrome Caused by Prolonged Drinking from Vessels with Bill-Shaped Extensions” — and dismissed it as fowl hooey.
I would like to see a follow-up piece on Ms. Smith, who…
I believe we have a photograph of that riiiiight… ah yes, here!