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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> 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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> Yes. Wally's friends.


I think Lumpy was Beav's friend and Eddie was Wally's friend. I could be
wrong.

Cheri