Date:  Wed, 5 Apr 1995 02:00:00 LCL

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: s'mores and thousand island dressing



in response to larry horn's message:



> Lynne Murphy writes (after agreeing with the majority sentiment that s'mores

> must contain real fire-roasted marshmallows [gee, sounds almost trendy that

> way] and not fluff glop and NO peanut butter):



sorry about all those notes from me today. you may have noticed that

they were sent over a week ago--they apparently were lost in e-mail

limbo somewhere.



> That IS quite an image, a line of fisherman-sweater- and parka-wearing

> inhabitants of the St. Lawrence seaway area with grass skirts dancing the

> hula. I'm quite confident that even if the connection between the dressing

> and the 1000 Islands of the St. Lawrence is embellished by myth, any

> connection with that OTHER archipelago can only be a recent folk etymology

> (or advertising ploy: grass skirts might be deemed to sell better than

> anoraks).



my favorite advertising ploy (at the same restaurant) was a

poster of a postcard from hawaii to advertise their "hawaiian burger"

(it has a slice of pineapple). apparently, it never occured to the

ad people that a postmark from hawaii would not be in afrikaans (the

rest of the ad was in english).



excuse me if this is off-topic--i've come to think of this as the

food-attitudes list. i'll try to control myself from here on out.

(i'll be better behaved after dinner).



lynne



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