[Sca-cooks] OOP - Foods with Place Names
Gretchen Beck
grm at andrew.cmu.edu
Sun Sep 10 20:28:44 PDT 2006
--On Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:15 PM -0400 "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus
Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
> Lessee. Do "Swedes" count?
>
> Turkey
> Napoleons
> Paris-Brest (again, this is a modifier, but a Gateau Paris-Brest is
> sometimes just called a Paris-Brest)
> Champignons? (which name indicates, I think, they come from the
> fields outside of town)
> Sandwich (arguable, but the Earl had this earldom)
> Currants
> Peach (Lat. Persicum)
Yup, I'd say Swedes count.
We've got a Plum Borough and a Cranberry township hereabouts, but somehow I
don't think that was the idea of the game ;-) On the same lines, there's
Olean (which I suppose might be named for the city in NY state and is only
arguably a food...)
toodles, margaret
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