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Friday, September 16, 2011

SEEN: Toot Berry

A newly-opened juice shop in Maidan Hawally

HUMOR:  Somehow, it sounds like "tooth fairy" to me...

HUMOR: The phrase "toot berry" is actually a pleonasm or a redundant term. "Toot" is a Persian-derived term for "berry" or to be specific the "mulberry" fruit, so it's like saying "berry berry".

FACTS: Toot or mulberry is widely used as a tea (toot chai) or juice drink (sharab el toot) in Lebanon and in other parts of the Middle East.. 




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