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On 8/29/2017 8:47 AM, wrote:
> On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 5:43:40 PM UTC-4, TimW wrote:
>> This is from a book published in the UK in 1910:
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>> ... a fellow names a new cereal after himself, and advertises it by
>> saying that something of the kind was once the chief food of the
>> American Indians, "one of the most stalwart races of men the world has
>> ever produced"; their women, he says, "ground it laboriously in hollowed
>> stones and cooked it in a rude manner," and yet, notwithstanding this
>> laborious grinding and rude cooking, the corn, "together with meat taken
>> in the chase, sustained a race of muscular giants."
>>
>> Does anyone know what he is talking about? I am pretty sure it would
>> have been commonplace in the USA and the UK 100 yrs ago, the cereal
>> advertised as Indian food, but I haven't been able to track it down and
>> nail the reference.
>>
>> Tim W
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> Were Eddie Haskel and Lumpy both on leave it to beaver?
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Yep!