Maggie Larson cartoon in the New Yorker‘s 4/8/19 issue: (#1) (Dried) fruits and nuts meeting and greeting, under the disco ball A POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): trail mixer = trail mix + mixer. Combining two elements very much grounded in particular sociocultural worlds (plus that disco ball glittering overhead). Trail mix. From NOAD: noun trail … Continue reading The trail mixer