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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 400 days ago
Some of these make more sense than others (and bookshop is hilarious even if it's only the best answer by a small margin; no shade to bookshop owners).

  map - legend = Mercator projection
  noodle - wheat = egg noodle
  noodle - gluten = tagliatelle
  architecture - calculus = architectural style
  answer - question = comment
  shop - income = bookshop
  curry - curry powder = cuisine
  rice - grain = chicken and rice
  rice + chicken = poultry
  milk + cereal = grain
  blue - yellow = Fiji
  blue - Fiji = orange
  blue - Arkansas + Bahamas + Florida - Pluto = Grenada
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I don't want to dump too many but I found

   chess - checkers = wormseed mustard (63%)
pretty funny and very hard to understand. All the other options are hyperspecific grasslike plants like meadow salsify.
My philosophical take on it is that natural language has many many more dimensions than we could hope to represent. Whenever you do dimension reduction you lose information.
dog - fur = Aegean civilization