[Sca-cooks] "Bad" language

[t.d.decker at att.net]

I always thought it derived from the Chinook word potlatch.

Bear
> Potluck, AFAIK, is Old English word and usually refers to 1 of 2 things. 1. 
> Guest drop by around dinner time and you prepare whatever is on hand. 2. a 
> communal dinner where every one brings something to the dinner. I don't know 
> how far back the tradition goes but I know that German Lutherans have 
> practiced the #2 meaning since the 1800s. Either as a church get together or 
> just friends and family gatherings. 
> And then there is tradition of the coffee cake which is probably a off shoot 
> of tea cakes but Northern Europe style. :) 
> 
> De