End of ADS-L Digest - 15 Jan 1998 to 16 Jan 1998
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 16 Jan 1998 to 17 Jan 1998

There are 5 messages totalling 144 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. "stronaks" for English muffins
 2. for Boyd Davis
 3. love that won't shut up (2)
 4. WALL STREET: Super Bowl Index; January Effect; Dead Cat Bounce

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Date:  Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:08:08 -0600
From:  Dan Goodman <dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VISI.COM>
Subject: "stronaks" for English muffins

A question from the ballad-l list:

>From dnichols[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]d-and-d.com Sat Jan 17 00:02:37 1998
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:42:47 -0500 (EST)
 ballad-l[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]indiana.edu
Subject: Re: Folk/Oral Tradition

"According to Dan Goodman"
> On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Paul J. Stamler wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Michael Cooney wrote:
> >
> > > What do they call "English muffins" in England?
> >
> > They don't *have* English muffins in England. As far as I can tell, those
> > are strictly American inventions, although distantly related to the scone.
>
> I believe they're more closely related to crumpets.

    Hmm ... this brings to mind something which has puzzled me for a
long time. My father, while he lived, used to refer to "English Muffins" as
"Stronaks" (spelling uncertain, of course.) I have suspected that was a
brand which he ate when he first started eating them -- in Boston, FWIW. He
was born in the early part of the 20th century.

Dan Goodman
dsgood[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.