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I don't know why, but I went into this thinking it was going to be about soda jerks.

• JKCalhoun 1y ago
  Had to go to the comments in the linked post to find the reference to the soda jerk. And "jerking" was apparently pulling on the (seltzer) tap. I suppose if "soda jerk" was thought to be a menial job (reminded of one of the threads in the film, "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)) ... then the original meaning of "jerk" as a loser might have come from that.
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• simondotau 1y ago
  I went into this thinking it was going to be about culinary spices. But I had just finished watching a video on jerk chicken so my mind was already in the wrong place…
  • tayo42 1y ago
    Don't get what people mean by jerking chicken when they make jerk chicken. Just applying spices I guess?
    • saltcured 1y ago
      And is it a contiuum where it eventually becomes quite jerky?