Good morning! And happy Insect Appreciation Day to all.

Not a clue on this one.

Thanks, Jasdip.

One bad idea so far. Two more even worse. And a fourth. All highly unlikely.

I’m just snickering about everyone who’s posted here before me.

Okay. I have two ideas. I think FOAS’s comment has me favouring one over the other.

FOAS's comment has me completely baffled.

Eh, don’t pay attention to me, more often than not my guesses are cold as ice.

I have only feeble guesses. If a chili dog were at stake, I’d go hungry. Thanks, Jasdip.

tj

Amazingly I have this one. Obviously I do think differently than most here. I just about never get them. It came in a flash. So weird

I've got yet another idea.

Amazing how many wrong ideas I can summon up.😉

If any of you are dropping hints they’re too broad for me to pick up on. I have come up with a one word answer but it’s wrong for sure since that’s not how the puzzle works.

No hints until Monday or foas gets pissy. 😜

KW, I think I actually know this one!!!!! Thanks, FOAS for the confirmation!!!

A random thought....Have you ever been foreigners in another country, either visiting or living?

Oh my gosh!

Waaaay off.

I had thoughts about for dinners, for sinners, and for winners. Couldn’t make them work.

Thanks, Jasdip 🤠

OMG - another I could never guess, even tho I must've said that to myself, it just never clicked!

Thanks for keeping me humble Jasdip 😄

Nope. Nothing started for (4) dinner. Need to start dieting (thinner). That’s all I had.

Thanks again.

tj

LOL Head smack! I just understood FOAS’s first comment! He needs his knuckles rapped.

Reminder—-Jasdip is one of us though. 🤠

eta I’m always nervous about giving hints. ☹️

I got it!!!!!! I finally got one!!!!! FOAS's comment sealed the deal for me. I read his comment and started singing!! Yay! I'm so happy.

KW, did you get it too???

Oh brother - another head smack here. I did say to myself - hmm - “four inners” - well, that’s not enough words so I don’t get this one either! So, yes, I got it but also no, I didn’t get it. I had to reread foas 2nd post to find the hint just now. 🙈

It must be your funny accent, FOAS. 😉

See, I told you my mine works differently than most of you here-the people who always get them . It screamed right out at me first go. Four inners. easy peasy. I was astonished . I never get these.

That was my fifth idea. Had to do a fake American accent to make it work though. Four inners and foreigners sound different in my own voice.😂

My first idea was dinners without starters. (Starters are what we call appetizers) But then I decided that was wrong because I don't think you say starters.

You guys have me laughing this afternoon. Thanks for that. Maybe this was the game that the slow learners understood. I'm guessing it won't happen again any time soon. lol

@murraysmom Zone 6a OH So where does that leave me? I’m the one who did get the right word but didn’t ’get it’ as being the answer?

Floral - ”Starters” is definitely used here as well and I think your answer was creative, though a bit more of a stretch than the typical answer here.

I don’t say 4-inners here, either, more a barely three-syllabled farmers with an N if that makes any sense.

KW, no worries. I didn't get it for sure until FOAS musical clue. Otherwise I was clueless. I'm sure you and I will be spending lots more time together in the future. :)

foas - you’re East Coast, yes? From West Coast, I know I’ve heard the term ’starters’ for a first course in a more formal dinner or even listed that way on menus. But, apps, the more casual word, is what first comes to mind for me. We definitely say four-uh-ners. A very different sound for the ’IN’ part of inners. My birthplace is MT & I spent adolescence & teen years in AK so I don’t think I have a typical regional accent or speech pattern. A person once told me I sounded like I came from NY. Didn’t say which part but I think that’s the MT influence.

Yeah I’m in NY, not sure that anyone would place my acdent though.

As for starter/appetizwr, it’s s a mix, I don’t know which is more common, but I happen to be sitting st a random mall restaurant and…..

oops bad pic and menu is now gone but it says ”starters and little bites”

We have starters here in Canada. (Alberta, the wild west) 🤠 Not that fancy.

I completely missed the musical clue, never having heard of it. But I couldn't believe FOAS was being xenophobic 😉, so I googled it. Phew.