BEg2 chapter 15 gratuitous Dirty Dancing reference

[Mark Kohut]

I stand officially corrected. But there is this:.....and etymological stuff
on the sometimes- connection between the two words. Could be a buried
pun?...I mean the merengue in Dirty
Dancing does get as frothy as meringue, right?
Urban Dictionary: meringue
<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meringue>

Apr 16, 2014 · meringue. 1. A creamy dessert topping, known well as part of
lemon meringue pie . 2. Slang for jizz. "I got meringue in my hair !"







On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:55 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark Kohut wrote:
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> And March, living out 'high fantasy": "I could manage some old-school
> meringue maybe."
> Meringue being slang for jizz.
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> - pretty sure merengue is a dance that they are going to do.
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> As Johnny - in Dirty Dancing - says to Baby about the clueless manager,
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>  “he wouldn’t know a merengue if it bit him in the pachanga!”
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> Apparently the name of the dance does relate to the confection, though:
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> https://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/merengue.htm
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