sugar and spice
Nursery rhyme recipe
Sugar and spice is an idiom that is most often used in a children’s rhyme: What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice. What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy dog tails.
The rhyme is the source of the idea that sugar and spice are used to characterize things that are sweet and pleasant, as distinguished from things that are not.
- cinnamonAromatic bark spice
- sweetTasting of sugar
- sweet and sourFlavor pairing of opposites
- gingerPungent culinary rhizome
- nursery rhymeTraditional poem for young children
nursery rhymes · vanilla · candy · dessert · femininity · childhood innocence · confectionery · pastry · gentleness · gender stereotypes · sucrose · chalk and cheese · salt and pepper · twofer · pair of shoes · kindness · warmth · apples and oranges
- gender stereotypesboys will be boys, pink for girls, blue for boys, man up, strong men
sugar and spicesalt and vinegar
Acidic-saline flavor pairing
rough and tumble · fire and brimstone · blood and guts · thunder and lightning · doom and gloom
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