Philip, try your mantilla. You might find it more comfortable.

Luke, that is WONDERFUL!
eco friendly and imaginative.
Thanks for a bright spot!

It is slang, and seems to have many meanings, none that I found specifically referring to food, but many sharing one characteristic, that being affirmation.

It is hard to incorporate new slang, I find.

Both nidi and niduses are accepted.

Looking at various "slang" dictionaries, I can only say, it is slang, and it seems to be used in many ways, but a common theme is that it is an emphatic positive.

try this?
https://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desser ... lata-yaya/

Thank you for that!
I'm from the East coast of America originally, and had always heard
phrag mites

Where are you?

If you click on the pronunciation, it is "...mite".
"ai" in the pronunciation guides, is long i sound.
It is at times hard for me to recognize that, as it often doesn't "look" like that sound, but I'm trying hard to remember it.

Bbeeton, please, am confused.
What is the difference in pronunciation of the two?
phrag vs. fo is more than pronunciation, no?
mites and mites seem to be pronounced the same?
What am I missing here?

Having never heard of this, I can only ask....
Is this real? or would this be more reasonably posted next April first?

I love it! I'm in the van!
ONWARD and UPWARD!!! MORE MORE MORE

Philip, and how could they not be??

Philip!
You put your mother in the cheese?

I was going to suggest that you and the Good Doctor each send us a sample, but ....

Thank you thank you thank you, both!
Now I just need to get the book again and find the sentence...

Sigh (of great relief!)

And since the word quote is from John Gardner in Wreckage of Agathon (1970) may I beg a boon? From the same work, the word "seraboidal", I've got nowhere trying to find a definition, let alone an etymology. Can anyone help? My searches led to nothing at all, or the quote from the book that...