My goodness

Aug. 3rd, 2010 02:05 pm
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Does anyone know (or care to speculate), what's the origin of the phrase template "full of [noun]-y goodness"?

It sounds like it ought to have come from an advert or something. But it's been used for so long with the speaker's choice of interpolated noun, I have no idea at all what the original might have been.

Date: 2010-08-03 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bibliogirl.livejournal.com
I'm sure I recall a finger of Fudge being full of "Cadbury['s?] goodness" in my youth...

Date: 2010-08-03 01:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-08-03 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fractalgeek.livejournal.com
I remember the phrase as "Chocolatey goodness"

Date: 2010-08-03 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
That would be shamefully untrue, unless "chocolatey" can be taken to mean "vaguely resembling chocolate, but not actually tasting of it (or containing more than a bare minimum)". Mind you, that was a more innocent age: advertisers could be a lot freer in their claims.

Date: 2010-08-03 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I'm so glad I'm not quite alone with this view.

all too true

Date: 2010-08-03 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackfirecat.livejournal.com
reparsing the same thing you'd just said but I'd go with shamefully true: it does indeed mean not chocolate per se, but, we claim, chocolatey

Date: 2010-08-03 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bibliogirl.livejournal.com
It having been set to music, I'm fairly convinced I'm remembering it correctly (my memory is odd like that) ;)

Date: 2010-08-03 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
Aha, yes, full of Cadury goodness. That's interesting, then: it's not even a [noun]-y adjective. People must have started subverting it on that basis almost straight away.

Date: 2010-08-03 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com
I thought a "a finger of fudge was just enough..", which always struck me as a stingy way to advertise a treat.

Date: 2010-08-03 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
Mm, it carries the subtext ("... if you don't like them very much") I think.

Date: 2010-08-04 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chilledchimp.livejournal.com
It's full of Cadbury goodness and very small and neat... I recall a robust parody in the playground, but I can't remember the words. Topic ads, however - What has a hazelnut in every bite? Squirrel sh*t!

Date: 2010-08-04 04:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chrisvenus
I was going to say that. I jsut happened to read the post a day and a half late. ;-)

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