"Sounds Delicious" - July 29, 2022

[MikeM000]

Based on the title, I was looking for rhymes but just couldn't make the connection with pastas. Though I did find some other interesting food suggestions: BREAD, ZINGER [tea], JELLY, SOURDOUGH, SAVORY AIOLI. Tonya zloty though was a complete baffler.

To piggyback off your post --
-The BREAD and JELLY had me trying to figure out how Peanut Butter fit in
-SHOREDOUGH reminded me of "Sure Do" (fits "sounds" but not really "delicious"); I think this may have been triggered by an NYT(?) clue from last week of "Reckon so" whose entry was ISPOSE.
-Doesn't fit the title too well but the one long answer was kinda close to I Dream of Jeannie.
-Living in a heavily Polish area I knew pronunciations are different (last name "Grzecki" = "Jet Ski", basically) and Google gave me 3 syllables for "zloty" (za-la-tee). Not that that affected my final outcome, but still....

[Deb F]

I noticed that 5 of the 6 long answers ended in "ie" or "y" - which led down the path of adding "yum" (sounds delicious) to the end of the theme answers to get periodic table elements.

I got Plutonium and Gallium but couldn't make it work for the rest.

The clue with (4) was a real stopper on that rabbit hole.


Never saw that but lit early on Geranium--took me to "yum"--which had me searching, in vain, for sounds for delicious!!

[ZooAnimalsOnWheels]

A week from now we will be in Hawaii with our family and having authentic Mai Tais every night, for sure! And yes that is my license plate. Aloha everyone!

I love a good Trader Vic's style Mai Tai. No orange or pineapple juice please! If you have been around La Jolla for a while, you may remember a restaurant down in San Diego's Gaslamp called Mister Tiki's Mai Tai Lounge that did a great Mai Tai. They used light and dark rum and then put a little float of 151 on top, and those would get you donked in a hurry! I was sad when they closed, but False Idol inside Craft and Commerce is a pretty great spot for tiki drinks, too. Enjoy the islands!

[John77]

Never having heard of agnolotti, I had a vanishingly small chance of getting this one.

At least the grid was manageable. Have a good week.

[ship4u]

We have a lot of white tail deer here in Ohio and I've never seen them eat acorns. But they do love geraniums. I thought that maybe Matt was tossing out a trick with that one. But, alas, another rabbit hole. And, we spent time in the SOURDOUGH rabbit hole as well.

[Plymouthrock]

Was stranded off coast of Puerto Vallarta, not a beach in sight.

[CPJohnson]

Are the rhymes a bit on the impure side? Perhaps. Rhymes often are. You say orange, I say door hinge.

I was taught in elementary school that nothing rhymes with orange. A close failure is porridge.

I was taught that, too, but I've since learned otherwise:

"What rhymes with orange?

Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a technical word for a sac where spores are made)."

https://www.dictionary.com/e/rhyme-with-orange/

Who knew? Thanks, Muggles! I shall inform my word-loving daughter. (Including yours, too, @Wendy Walker )

[Gman]

AGNOLOTTI was new to me. I had to back-solve that one after first getting to FLMVOR using MANICOTTI.

I have such a lousy ear that I thought it was ARRABIATA, which didn't quite work with the others, but close enough. Of course, sometimes it's spelled with two Bs, so it has 10 letters, but I was so excited to be early on the board that I committed right away. Of course, I then posted like an idiot, having completely ignored our trusted Cruise Director's instructions to NOT POST!

[bhamren]

Savvy Goalie was where I found the way to the solution. I kept saying it out loud repeatedly and “ravioli” finally popped in my head. It was fun to figure out the rest, with a backsolve needed for agnolotti after some Google searching.

I think we had the EXACT same experience then. I set a reminder for 10 p.m. Sunday night to look at the WSJ puzzle if I didn't get it on Thursday. I pulled it out and said the long words out loud. Savvy Goalie for Ravioli was the first hit. Then that gave the (7) some meaning also so I could find the others. Orzo was next and then Vermicelli. By now I knew it was either Italian or pasta related so the the rest was easy except for the backsolve for the "A".

[LadyBird]

Are the rhymes a bit on the impure side? Perhaps. Rhymes often are. You say orange, I say door hinge.

I was taught in elementary school that nothing rhymes with orange. A close failure is porridge.

I was taught that, too, but I've since learned otherwise:

"What rhymes with orange?

Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a technical word for a sac where spores are made)."

https://www.dictionary.com/e/rhyme-with-orange/

A cluster of fungusy sporange
Infested my sweet little orange.
In a fit of despair
(And urged on by the hare)
I jumped from the heights of the Blorenge.

[minimuggle]

I am such a pasta lover that this puzzle was right up my alley. I guessed at the mechanism but had trouble thinking of a 4 letter word that rhymed with shore dough. When I got orzo I had fun with the others. I am making dreadagenie with pesto tonight.

[MaineMarge]

And, we spent time in the SOURDOUGH rabbit hole as well.

Man! I caught a big red herring with that sour dough too, as well as Tonya

[halseymac]

This puzzle didn't sound too delicious to me. I live in North Carolina and down here we would say "dread a genie" with a long A....didn't get the rhyming thing at ALL!

[PHOFER]

I’m surprised at how many people say they have never heard of agnolotti, my go-to pasta. I was introduced to it 40 years ago at a small Italian restaurant in DC, but I see it now on menus all the time. When it is done well it is heavenly.

[CPJohnson]

I’m surprised at how many people say they have never heard of agnolotti, my go-to pasta. I was introduced to it 40 years ago at a small Italian restaurant in DC, but I see it now on menus all the time. When it is done well it is heavenly.

Is it stuffed, like ravioli?

[higgysue]

I got this puzzle very quickly. I coulda made page one but no, we weren’t allowed to post! I love pasta. Had it for supper tonight. Delicious!

[BethA]

I was imagining page 1. Also had pasta tonight - tortellini. What rhymes with that?

Many thanks to all of the behind-the-scenes efforts to keep the forum going!!

[TeaJenny]

I was taught in elementary school that nothing rhymes with orange. A close failure is porridge.

I was taught that, too, but I've since learned otherwise:

"What rhymes with orange?

Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a technical word for a sac where spores are made)."

https://www.dictionary.com/e/rhyme-with-orange/

A cluster of fungusy sporange
Infested my sweet little orange.
In a fit of despair
(And urged on by the hare)
I jumped from the heights of the Blorenge.

Bravo! Well said!

[TeaJenny]

I’m surprised at how many people say they have never heard of agnolotti, my go-to pasta. I was introduced to it 40 years ago at a small Italian restaurant in DC, but I see it now on menus all the time. When it is done well it is heavenly.

Would that restaurant be Luigi's, by any chance?

[pookie]

I was imagining page 1. Also had pasta tonight - tortellini. What rhymes with that?

Port Hueneme.
It's closer than the puzzle examples.