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 01:46 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

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