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Early 20th Cent American Cereals
"Taxed and Spent" > wrote in message
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> On 9/2/2017 10:53 PM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>> > 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.
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>> I think Lumpy was Beav's friend and Eddie was Wally's friend. I could be
>> wrong.
>>
>> Cheri
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> both were Wally's friends.
OK
Cheri
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