Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 19:33:54 -0600

From: Daniel S Goodman-1 dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU

Subject: Re: regional business names (fwd)



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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 19:24:41 -0600 (CST)

From: Daniel S Goodman-1 dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]maroon.tc.umn.edu

To: Folklore Discussion List FOLKLORE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TAMVM1.BITNET

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Subject: Re: regional business names



The Twin Cities have had at least two restaurants called "Gopher Grill."

About half of native-born Minnesotans find it hard to understand why I

find this funny. (Same way I didn't realize till recently that "Fishkill

River" could sound like a joke.)



There is a New York Pizza place in downtown MPLS. This is regional in a

negative way -- in Ulster County NY, there don't seem to be any food

places named New York ___. I suspect that there aren't any in

metropolitan New Jersey, either. And that southern Illinois has a lot

fewer Chicago ___ eateries than, say, Minneapolis.



Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]maroon.tc.umn.edu