• Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Very common in the U.S. we have been marketed to for almost 100 years about gas appliances being better than electric. The common phrase “now you’re cooking with gas!” Started as an ad on radio shows like Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, and Bob Hope around 1940. Now it just means you’re working hard/well, especially suddenly.

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      3 months ago

      Huh, always heard the phrase as “cooking with fire”

      The firewood industry is slippery, haha.