grunge slang , also: grunch slang

"I had one grunch but the eggplant over there."

Sail me through air to land with sickening grunch?

"I'm going to follow this grunch, this grinch, I mean this grump, who likes to put people down."

A popular legend in New Orleans concerns a popular lovers' lane called Grunch Road, which was said to be inhabited by "grunches", creatures similar in appearance to the Chupacabra.

Paul Winchell - Bubi Bear, Furface the Lion, Tiptoes the Ostrich, Specs the Mole, Mr. Grunch, Gabby The Parrot, Pipsqueak The Mouse (episodes 4)

In Price's In One Head and Out the Other, the bible of Avoidism, his character Clayton Slope "had a clever trick of saying any conceivable sentence so that it sounded like "I had one grunch but the eggplant over there."

The Tables broke up soon after the release, but the original trio reformed in 1996/97 to record their second album called "Holiday at Wobbledef Grunch", released on Perfect Pop Records, a small label that was run by the group members and others from the indie-pop scene in Oslo.

Other books by Price included The Great Roob Revolution (Random House, 1970), What Not to Name the Baby and In One Head and Out the Other (Ballantine, 1954), which popularized the catchphrase "I had one grunch, but the eggplant over there."