Date:  Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:46:07 -0500
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: throwed rolls

At 07:08 PM 1/4/98 EST, you wrote:
>As we drove east on Interstate 10, from Mississippi toward Pensacola
>FL, we saw several billboards touting the "throwed rolls" at a
>restaurant.
>
>Is anyone here familiar with "throwed rolls"?
>
>thanks,
>
>beth simon
>assistant professor, linguistics and english
>department of english and linguistics
>indiana university purdue university
>

Can't say as I have, but from the sound of it they may possibly (???) be a
relative of "beaten biscuits," which are so called because they are made
without yeast: just flour, salt, sugar, and lard (with some variations).
BB's are instead lightened by beating the dough with a mallet or hammer for
as long as 20-30 minutes. "Beaten biscuits" is a midlands/southern term, and
for some reason is especially associated with Maryland; sometimes they are
called "Maryland beaten biscuits." People in Maryland think of them as a
typically regional food from the "olden days." DARE has a distribution-map
for "beaten biscuits."

On I-10 by the way: I'm told it is thought by some to be the closest
"Interstate" equivalent to the old cross-the-USA Route 66. I-10 runs from
Jacksonville to LA, I think. So I'd imagine one sees plenty from I-10. Of
course there's also 40 that runs from NC to CA, 80 that runs from NY to SF,
90 that runs from MA to WA, etc. But 10 is the southernmost cross-country route.

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu