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Default A great cake for the holiday

On 11/30/2013 10:35 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2013-11-30, jmcquown > wrote:
>
>> Isn't Emeril Legasse from Massachusetts or some such place?

>
> Isn't yer computer jes as capable as mine of typing in Emeril's name
> into a search engine and reading about eleventy jillion bios giving
> his birth place? You coming down with a case of Ophilia-itis?
>
> I mean, c'mon ppl! Yer sitting at the most advanced data search
> device ever devised by mankind and you continually ask questions you
> can easily find the answer to in about 8 secs. I can appreciate
> wanting to talk/communicate fer social reasons, but give it a rest.
> "What are grits?"??? Are you kidding me!? You can't find google and
> type in "grits"? You want I should breath for you, too??
>
> nb
>

Oh hesh, nb! It was a rhetorical question. I was pointing out it's
just another silly attribution to something "Southern" that really
isn't. Emeril might like southern (more specifically Louisana) food but
he's not from the South.

Jill