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the only fire where the meanest words come wrapped in the most love
means To cook food with dry heat in an oven or over a flame — or, more recently, to mock someone with affectionate, escalating insults, often in front of a crowd.
from From Old French 'rostir,' to roast or burn, which itself likely came from a Germanic root — possibly related to a word for the gridiron or grate the meat sat on. English took it in around the 13th century, strictly for cooking. The 'tease mercilessly' sense came centuries later, slang that compared a person squirming under verbal heat to meat turning on a spit — and by the 20th century the comic 'roast,' a banquet of cheerful abuse, made the metaphor an institution.
- Maillard magic
- Browning creates hundreds of new flavor compounds
- Comedy origin
- Friars Club institutionalized the cruel-affection format in 1949
- Coffee science
- Darker roasts actually contain less caffeine than light
- Sunday ritual
- British roast dinners predate the toaster by centuries
- Roast rule
- You only roast people you genuinely respect
charlie hebdo roast — french satirical magazine's 2006 muhammad cartoons that sparked global protests
burn notice roast — usa network spy comedy series where characters were 'burned' by their agency in miami
comedy central roast — annual tv roast battles featuring celebrities insulting each other, running since 2007