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What do we need to buy for our glorious Christmas dinner? Create a shopping list of all the things to get by deciphering the rebus puzzle. Bonus question: Find out what is broken and needs to be replaced.

rebus puzzle

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Thanks to a comment from 1357924680a this puzzle from 2021 is now fully solved.

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One kilo of beef or pork

NO symbol backwards + (+1 = LIKE) backwards + O = ONE KILO. off=OF. bbbb=b4=BEEF OR. Morse code P + double bar OR operator, and Morse code disguised as a smiley face K = PORK.

h/t M Oehm, somebody & LOTGP

Nine fish

N in E F is H.

Two new veneer chairs

toe=two, gnu=new. ve<->=ve near=veneer. ch + “air” + s = chairs.

h/t M Oehm, somebody & No Name

Eight pounds of potatoes

Eat past tense is ate or EIGHT. p oz = p ounce which sounds like POUNDS. Cuff (nosy = no C) = uff or OF. POT + A + arrow TO + (español - pañol (spanish for store-room) = ES) = POTATOES.

h/t M Oehm, somebody, user168715 & 1357924680a

A bone to give the dog

LANRETE with backwards arrow under it spells ETERNAL. It is colored like the Swedish flag. Swedish for 'eternal' is 'evig'. 'Evig' backwards is 'give'. There is an A bound to it. Word THE is THE. The flags are semaphores for the letters D O G. A bound to give the dog.

h/t M Oehm & somebody

Many vegetables

Person whose head is male symbol = MAN. A Y on him makes MANY. V-edge tables = vegetables.

h/t M Oehm

Dozen sugar canes

Someone taking a doze, his snores are Ns instead of Zs. The backwards flag of US is SU. The coordinates point to a town in Brazil called Garca. Adding that to the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) and subtracting ie (internet explorer) and respacing yields DOZEN SUGAR CANES(S)

h/t M Oehm & somebody

Ten puddings

Tungsten - tongues (puddle rings) - ruler’s 3rd 4th and 5th letters.

Forty cookies

Four ties Braile C O O keys.

caPNCApn
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    Very good. Some more ideas in rot13 for maximum pre-Christmas secrecy: (1) Cerggl fher vg fgnegf jvgu "bar xvyb bs S...: "ab" naq "yvxr" onpxjneqf + bss. (3) Jung pbzrf orsber gur "ab anhgvpny fgberebbz" vf "cbgngb". (5) Rgreany vf Fjrqvfu vf rivt. Gurer'f nyfb na N punvarq gb gung. Tvir punva gb qbt? Uz. (6) Fheryl gurfr ner I-rqtr gnoyrf. (7) Gur VR zhfg or erzbirq sebz Arffvr. Ab vqrn nobhg gur ortvaavat, gubhtu. – M Oehm Dec 05 '21 at 12:07
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    more ideas: (1) oooo znl or "oo dhrhr", ohg ea vgf n fgergpu. (5) znlor gur jbeqvat vf "n punva? gb tvir gur qbt" (4) ... cnpzna, oebjfre uvfgbel vpba... pnc c bhapr??? vs gur ebgngvba vf gnxra zber yvgrenyyl... q bm (ra)? sbe "anhgvpny fgberebbz", znevan xvaqn pbhagf, naq vf inthryl sbbq eryngrq (3) gur navzny vf n jvyqrorrfg. gur nafjre pbhyq or "srfgvir punvef" ohg ntnva n fgergpu ngz. gur neebjf zvtug uryc, gurl zvtug pbqr sbe nabgure jbeq. (7) gung ybbxf yvxr gur hf gjvggre rzbwv, juvpu onpxjneqf jbhyq or whfg "fh" – somebody Dec 05 '21 at 17:30
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    @somebody a jvyqrorrfg is also called a tah, just fyi – No Name Dec 05 '21 at 19:53
  • @MOehm haha (I-rqtr gnoyrf) made my day. Everything else looks really good too. Nice work on lanrete. – caPNCApn Dec 05 '21 at 22:56
  • @somebody Very nice. I think (oo dhrhr) is exactly right. Other ideas look good too. – caPNCApn Dec 05 '21 at 22:57
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    hm. (4) abfl = ab p? juvpu znl ghea phss vagb hss? uvfgbel + cnpzna = onpx cnp???? abg n dhnagvsvre. (3) gbr tah = gjb arj?????? – somebody Dec 06 '21 at 04:13
  • @somebody Very nice! rot13(hss pbhyq = bs, fb znlor k bm bs. Naq gjb arj kk punvef pbhyq or "jung vf oebxra naq arrqf gb or ercynprq") – caPNCApn Dec 06 '21 at 05:50
  • v qhaab ubj ohg gur guvat nsgre cbgngb vf cebonoyl fnynq – caPNCApn Dec 06 '21 at 05:51
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    (3) rot13(ir... nebhaq??? = ir enaqn? jub xabjf.) – somebody Dec 06 '21 at 05:52
  • so right now it seems (4) and (7) still have the most work to do? – somebody Dec 06 '21 at 06:49
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    I think 5 is just rot13(n obar gb tvir gur qbt -- "N obhaq gb ...") and 3 might be rot13(gjb arj fbzrguvat punvef). Oh, and 7 is rot13("n qbmra fhtnepnarf -- n qbmr + A + jung'f nyernql gurer). – M Oehm Dec 06 '21 at 06:58
  • Idea for 3): rot13(Qbhoyr neebjf pbhyq zrna ov-qverpgvbany, znlor whfg "ov") – Crimsonfox Dec 06 '21 at 10:21
  • @Crimsonfox maybe... but not sure if/how that would fit into the phrase – somebody Dec 06 '21 at 10:27
  • Not seen it mentioned yet, but I think the symbol at the end of 4 is rot13(n ab ragel fvta (zber pbzzbayl frra jvgu n juvgr fgevcr, ohg fbzr pbhagevrf hfr lryybj), fb V jbhyq thrff jr ner ybbxvat sbe n genafyngvba bs "ab ragel" jvgu fbzrguvat erzbirq sbe gur anhgvpny fgberebbz) . But I haven't found a way to make that work yet. – fljx Dec 06 '21 at 14:09
  • Let me give you a few hints: 1) “BBQ pork” isn’t what I was thinking about, although it makes sense. How many b’s are there? 3) Take a look at the length of the arrow – I could have made it longer. 4) What does an open mouth signify? Also, you’ll probably need a dictionary. –  Dec 06 '21 at 18:37
  • (3) rot13(ir arne = irarre) of course... heh, not sure why i didn't think of that earlier. (1)... the clue gets me rot13(orsber) but not convinced that helps. (4) is still eluding me too. hopefully someone else can figure them out – somebody Dec 07 '21 at 17:18
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    It is unclear if Lypyrhythm will come back to PSE, therefore: If this doesn't get fully solved (in case it's even possible to know its the correct solution when you have it) until 12/24, I'll award the 100 point bounty to this answer regardless. – Lukas Rotter Dec 08 '21 at 16:29
  • (4) is probably something like rot13(rvtug cbhaqf bs cbgngb gbegvyyn (ngr c bhapr hss cbg n gb (???) gvyyn)). But I don't understand how the crossing-out turns into that missing syllable. – user168715 Dec 10 '21 at 19:07
  • (1) what about rot13(orrs be cbex, nf o4 -> osbhe -> orrs be) – Surma Dec 10 '21 at 20:09
  • @user168715 i saw that a while ago and thought it was too much of a stretch but upon further thinking... rot13(tvira gung vg'f va tnyvpvna, juvpu vf "n pb-bssvpvny ynathntr jvgu fcnavfu" va n ertvba ba fcnva) it makes a lot more sense. also because, perhaps surprisingly, rot13(cbgngb gbegvyyn vf na npghny (fcnavfu!) qvfu). of course the final piece of the puzzle seem to still elude us... – somebody Dec 12 '21 at 15:32
  • @cap for (4) it seems like you may be missing the explanation for the cuff symbol – somebody Dec 12 '21 at 15:35
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    @cap it seems that you are overcomplicating yourself. What is the Spanish word for Spanish? – 1357924680a Apr 11 '23 at 13:52
  • @1357924680a nice catch. We can finally wrap this one up. Thank you. – caPNCApn Apr 11 '23 at 15:00