See, I think Ken Jennings is wrong. I think Nabisco, and by extension Rachael Ray, do think their recipes are delicious and entertaining. If they could think up a cheap way to make the crackers to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, they probably would.
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I agree with you. I don’t think the box is trying to say “these are delicious recipes for entertaining” as Jennings thinks. I don’t think anyone would ever say “entertaining recipes” to mean “recipes to serve when you are entertaining.”
But check this out:
http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=826&start=25
Ken lists links for Pillsbury, Sara Lee, Swanson, Betty Crocker, and Kraft where “entertaining recipes” is used as a stock phrase to mean exactly that.
That’s interesting. I’ve only been reading his blog (off and on) for a couple of months; I didn’t realize he had a message board, or that he responded on it.
My point wasn’t can the phrasing be interpreted to mean what Jennings thinks it means? Because, if it does, then yes, obviously a comma is grammatically correct. My point was more that in this instance, I don’t think that’s what they meant.
I don’t think these are “recipes to serve when you are entertaining.” I think these are “recipes that will entertain you.”
I haven’t even seen these crackers. (And I’ve only read a little bit of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.) I think I’ve spent too much time thinking about this.