RRRuffles have ridges!
Posted by Arthur on May 14, 2010
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My girlfriend’s mom talked to me about dance costumes that my girlfriend used when she was little.
When describing my girlfriend’s costumes, my girlfriend’s mom said one of them had ruffles.
“Do you know what ruffles are?” my girlfriend asked me.
She and her mom explained to me that ruffle is pleated fabric for decoration purposes that can be used in clothes such as my girlfriend’s dance skirt.
“When you say ruffles, I picture potato chips,” I said.
“But that’s why Ruffles are called Ruffles,” my girlfriend said. “It’s kind of wavy. That’s ruffles.”
Ruffles’ slogans
After reflecting about the word ruffles and the potato chips with the same name, I also reflected about the Ruffles’ slogan in my mother tongue Portuguese: “Ruffles, a batata da onda” (Ruffles, the wavy potato).
Just for curiosity, I searched for the Ruffles’ slogan in English. “RRRuffles have ridges,” according to Google.
I had to look up the word “ridge.”
“Ridge” is “the horizontal line formed by the juncture of two sloping planes, especially the line formed by the surfaces at the top of a roof,” according to The Free Dictionary.
Ridge, wave, ruffles.
Everything made sense.
