Catchword: short eats

Filed under: English, Sri Lanka, Food & Drink

Part of speech: n.pl.

Quotation: If your appetite grows during the day, you can stop at one of the many tea houses which dominate any town’s streets, and order “short eats,” a lovely collective noun for various snacks, such as small patties, spring rolls, samosas, fritters, and small desserts of spiced flours, coconut and cashew nuts.

Article or Document Title:
“It’s lush eating in Sri Lanka”

Author:
Patricia Stamp, Stephen Katz

Article, document, publication, web site:
Globe and Mail

Publishing location:
Toronto, Can.

Date of publication:
Apr. 23, 1986

Page number:
E1

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