It's really weird that early dinners are called "early bird specials"

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An “early bird” is a very old idiom for someone who is up and productive early in the morning. See also “early bird gets the worm.”

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  • Palerider@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But the second mouse gets the cheese…

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you ever heard the story about the grasshopper and the octopus?

      All summer long the grasshopper worked to gather food while the octopus played video games. Then winter came and the grasshopper died so the octopus took all of his food. Also he got a racecar.

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or alternatively early worm gets the bird.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s my point: going by the idiom, an early bord special would be a serving of worms 😁

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To me it actually sounds like they’re serving poultry.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sounds like they’re serving poultry.

    You mean like eggs?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What came first? The early chicken or the eggs over medium?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmm, maybe… I’m still never not gonna think “gets the worm”, though

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