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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3827362" data-attributes="member: 18549">I like their honey puffed cereal (kind of like Sugar Crisp with more variable flavour and texture) and their snack crackers.  I'm not fond of ranch-flavoured anything (I can't imagine wanting something to taste like a ranch anyway), but the honey-flavoured snack crackers are tasty.It might be worth pointing out that it's a fairly recent corruption of "bite the dust," which is probably more recognizable.It's not onomatopoeia.  Onomatopoeia is when a word is formed in such as way as to describe the sound it references, like "knock" or "boom".  Schwing (and variations thereof) are suggestive of an action, not a sound.  Also, not everyone watched late-night American television in the 90s.Define the following foods (mostly from Wikipedia):GrinderJimmiesBeavertailToad In The HoleRarebitSweetbreadBunny ChowBeef OlivesNot that I think you can't, but it illustrates the importance of regional naming conventions.</blockquote>