Pie chops?
February 27, 2012 9:15 AM
We were at the local watering hole this weekend and one of the servers brought us a comment card that a customer had filled out. In the comment area, the customer put "This place is pie chops!!!"
No one could figure out what this could possibly mean. Any ideas? We tried googling the full phrase and just pie chops, but came up empty. The customer seemed happy so we assumed it was a compliment.
It could be a Cockney Rhyming Slang-style compliment or just a mental glitch/malapropism.
posted by kate blank at 9:26 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by kate blank at 9:26 AM on February 27, 2012
Well, I've got two things:
1. McCain does a pie-chop
2. Bannings Restaurant "has pie chops"
I think #1 speaks for itself, but #2 is at least a possibility.
What they seem to mean by "has pie chops" is that the restaurant has the chops for making great pies--"chops" in the sense of "technique" or "expert ability" (def. #4 here).
So that is at least a possibility--especially if the "is" could have been a botched up attempt to write "has" or a contraction or something.
If so, they were trying to say that the place makes great pies.
posted by flug at 10:51 AM on February 27, 2012
1. McCain does a pie-chop
2. Bannings Restaurant "has pie chops"
I think #1 speaks for itself, but #2 is at least a possibility.
What they seem to mean by "has pie chops" is that the restaurant has the chops for making great pies--"chops" in the sense of "technique" or "expert ability" (def. #4 here).
So that is at least a possibility--especially if the "is" could have been a botched up attempt to write "has" or a contraction or something.
If so, they were trying to say that the place makes great pies.
posted by flug at 10:51 AM on February 27, 2012
Well, it looks like "pie" is (a bit archaic) British and American slang for "delightful" or "very enjoyable." See here -- search for "Pie (Eng.- American, 19 cent.)" without the quotes.
So perhaps it actually meant to say "This place is pie, chaps!!!" (The comma may have been intentionally or inadvertently omited.)
posted by cerebus19 at 10:52 AM on February 27, 2012
So perhaps it actually meant to say "This place is pie, chaps!!!" (The comma may have been intentionally or inadvertently omited.)
posted by cerebus19 at 10:52 AM on February 27, 2012
I wonder if it's an personally, half-joking phrase. Sort of like Pierce Hawthorne's "streets ahead", or "awesome sauce".
posted by oxfordcomma at 11:01 AM on February 27, 2012
posted by oxfordcomma at 11:01 AM on February 27, 2012
Just to continue our tour of all possible usages of the term "pie chops":
- It seems that "pie chops" in the sense of "ability to make great pies," as I mentioned above, does have a bit of currency here and there--one example: "Just sorry I was in from out of town and couldn’t share my pie chops with all of you." Another: "Either way - working on your pie chops is a smart thing to do."
- "Pie chops" is sometimes used in the sense of "teeth"--sort of like "choppers," I suppose. Example 1: "The scene opens with Crystal the Cheerleader, plunging her apple pie chops around a fatty cheeseburger bigger than her own vain head." Example 2: "Seatbelts stop your pie chops from eating the steering wheel through closed teeth and putting your bowling ball head through the windscreen."
These are about all the interesting usages of the term I could find on either Google or Google Books, so I would have to say it is a fairly uncommonly used term.
posted by flug at 1:40 PM on February 27, 2012
- It seems that "pie chops" in the sense of "ability to make great pies," as I mentioned above, does have a bit of currency here and there--one example: "Just sorry I was in from out of town and couldn’t share my pie chops with all of you." Another: "Either way - working on your pie chops is a smart thing to do."
- "Pie chops" is sometimes used in the sense of "teeth"--sort of like "choppers," I suppose. Example 1: "The scene opens with Crystal the Cheerleader, plunging her apple pie chops around a fatty cheeseburger bigger than her own vain head." Example 2: "Seatbelts stop your pie chops from eating the steering wheel through closed teeth and putting your bowling ball head through the windscreen."
These are about all the interesting usages of the term I could find on either Google or Google Books, so I would have to say it is a fairly uncommonly used term.
posted by flug at 1:40 PM on February 27, 2012
Jehan - how do you know?!?!
I confess, I don't. I was just making it up as it sounded like cockney rhyming slang. I didn't think anybody would take it entirely seriously! I'm so sorry.
posted by Jehan at 8:03 AM on February 28, 2012
I confess, I don't. I was just making it up as it sounded like cockney rhyming slang. I didn't think anybody would take it entirely seriously! I'm so sorry.
posted by Jehan at 8:03 AM on February 28, 2012
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posted by Jehan at 9:24 AM on February 27, 2012