Mung

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Mung: Unpleasant goo. A bean. Mongolian money.

As a young adult, in my lexicon of low (Mad Magazine) and high (New Yorker) humor, I often found the word mung indispensable to describe any yucky stuff. I later discovered that a bean of that name and its sprouts were much favored by hippies and Chinese frugal gourmets. It is also the currency unit in Mongolia. Still mung to me.

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