Matrimonial ads for sailors- Shore, Ahoy!
Ahoy, have you seen this man?
Ahoy there, fellow astral travellers.
This beverage has more sugar than 15 Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies.
If you think you're doing a good job of avoiding trans-fat
laden foods because you save culprits like Chips Ahoy!
Anything that's spiked with a half-gram of heart-harming trans fat and
as much sugar as 8 Chips Ahoy cookies is a definite"Not That!"!
According to the Oxford English Dictionary,
the first written record of the word“Ahoy” comes from the Wonderful Adventures of Peregrine Pickle,
written in the 1750s:“Ho!
Similar to Graham Bell's reason for liking“Ahoy hoy”, Edison liked“hello” as a telephone greeting
because it was easily heard and distinguished from other words, even over long distance transmissions(for the time).
Ahoy hoy” has seen something of a resurgence in the last
couple decades thanks to the fact that Mr. Burns on The Simpsons, uses it as his standard greeting when answering the phone.
According to the latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, American children aged 2 to 19 are consuming an average of 80 grams of sugar per day,
which is what you would find in 13 Chips Ahoy chewy cookies.