SC - New pet peeve

[Laura C Minnick]

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> The earliest American chowders appear to have been layered, baked
> constructs like a lasagna, or a fish-based Irish stew, made from salt
> pork, ship's biscuit, potatoes, onions, fish and fish stock, with butter
> added as a garnish at the table. Even these are only loosely related to
> European originals, bearing about as much relation to French soups as if
> a French immigrant to the New World had said, "Okay, what have we got
> around here to make a hotpot out of?"

Adds a new light (flavor? ;-) to the Calvin & Hobbes insult:

	"Chowder head!"

I just keep picturing the lasagna pan dumped over the insultee's
pate...hee hee hee!

later,
'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick
University of Oregon
Department of English
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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