Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:29:46 CST

From: "Krahn, Al" AKRA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSIC.LIB.MATC.EDU

Subject: Loose meat was in Milwaukee



On Saturday I was in the same room with someone who grew up in

Cedar Rapids, Iowa and also the daughter of a butcher in Milwaukee

earlier in the century.



Indeed, MaidRites (which seems to be closer to the correct

spelling) were served in Cedar Rapids. They were ground meat on a

bun, pulverized while being cooked, apparently.



The butcher's daughter said that her mother (this must have been in

the 1930s and 40s) made "loose ground meat" or "loose hamburger,"

which was pulverized meat.

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What the Sam Hill?



Wentworth and Flexner, DICT OF AMERICAN SLANG, 1975 (574) says:

1. Emphatically what? 1954 "What the Sam Hill is eating you?"

W. Henry, DEATH OF A LEGEND, 178.

2. An interj. indicating angry surprise. Colloq. Somewhat archaic.

Prob. a euphem for "what the hell!"



But "What the dickens" is Elizabethan. How did Sam Hill get in there?



AKRA









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