Brisk tea...& pee-ar-o-dee-u-cee...; "Portrait of the artists as young hams"; "It ain't nuttin', Honey"; Cooking the book; Dyn-o-mite!; Ill-titled film?

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e^{4 +} 5!  SERVED

Welcome to this October 9 edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Yesterday was National Poetry Day. I declare today to be National Bad Poetry Day. I shall commemorate it, in the third appetizer below, with a pair of putrid limericks.

We are, however, serving up six non-putrid puzzles – a morsel, three appetizers, a menu entrée and a “salad” for dessert:

Morsel Menu

Throwaway Cinematic Morsel:

Ill-titled film?

A movie in current circulation has a title which, when spelled backward, from right-to-left, forms a word its producers hope movie goers will not doing its screening. When spelled normally, from left-to-right, the movie title forms a word its producers hope reviewers and critics will not do to it after screening it.

What is this movie, now in a theater near you?

Appetizer Menu

Breaking News Appetizer:

Dyn-o-mite!

A breaking news story includes two essential words, both capitalized. One is a seven-letter country.

The letters in these two words can be rearranged to form a two-word rallying cry that is suggested by the illustrations pictured here in this puzzle.

What are the two words in the breaking news story? What is the rallying cry? 

Nms N Th Nws Appetizer:

Brisk tea…& pee-ar-o-dee-u-cee…

A product lately in the news is often called by its two-letter abbreviation. It takes a 33% longer period of time (Thanks, David) to say the product’s abbreviation than to say its name.

Hint: The product’s name and its abbreviation, when spelled out (a la “pee-ar-o-dee-u-cee-tee”) contain the same number of letters.

What is this product’s name?  

Words In The News Appetizer:

“It ain’t nuttin’, Honey”

A business/consumer news story this past week included three essential words, One, a plural proper noun; two, a hyphenated modifier, and three, a word that can be either a verb or noun:

1.) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

2.) __ __ __ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __

3.) __ __ __ __ __ __

Those 24 letters can be rearranged to form five words:

1.) A verb that smacks of “crying over spilled milk” (6 letters)

2.) A synonym of that verb that begins with the same consonant (3 letters)

3.) A building extension shaped like a letter that is the subject of (or “key” to) one of the limericks below (3 letters)

4.) A word that appears in both limericks below (5 letters)

5.) A word that sometimes precedes the 5-letter limerick word (above), forming a two-word term for a geological feature (7 letters)

(Note: A more common first word in the two-word term for a geological feature is an 11-letter name of a dance that is also the name of a Lincoln.)

What are the three words in the news story and the five words formed from their letters?

An old fishmonger, greedy and selfish,

“Prawned off” carp as fine gourmet-style shellfish.

     But smart shoppers were wise

     To this foul fishy guise…

On the shelf carp remained – “shellfish” “shelfish”.

Cried the Cockney, “A rum from that shelf,

For my wife’s given birth to our twelfth!”

     Had he spoke alphabetically

     And not arithmetically,

He’d have yelled, “Let us drink to our ‘ealth!”

MENU

See You In The Funny Papers Slice:

“Portraits of the artists as young hams”

What do Dennis Mitchell, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne and Oprah Winfrey have in common?

Dessert Menu

Salad Daze Dessert:

Cooking the book

This puzzle involves a fake cookbook purportedly written by a real person named Giada De Laurentiis, an Italian-born American celebrity chef, television personality and author of real cookbooks such as “Giada’s Feel Good Food” and “Everyday Pasta.”

“Giada Go-to’s” is the title of the ersatz cookbook, of which Puzzleria! has obtained an advanced bootleg copy. (See dustjacketed cover, pictured here.) 

As the subtitle elaborates, the book contains “tried and true never-fail salad recipes from the test kitchen of Giada De Laurentiis.”

Some cookbook reviewers and critics in possession of advance review copies, however, reportedly have detected what they believe may be a subliminal message embedded in the cookbook’s main title. These reviewers suggest that the hidden message touts the superiority of the lush European vegetation and herbage for salad preparation. The book title, the critics claim, subtly hints that salads made with the verdant ingredients from “across the pond” in Giada’s homeland are superior to salads made with our own home-grown-in-America red, white and blue veggies!

This cookbook conspiracy theory involves a well-known proverb, albeit one with two new added words (“…denser and…”) inserted within it.

Explain the book reviewers’ theory.

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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