In article >,
T > wrote:

> Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?

I think of Eagan, Minnesota (not far from where our illustrious Jam
Lady lives), where there is a Johnny Cake Ridge Road
(<http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...ss&country=US&
addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popf lag=0&latitude=&lon
gitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=johnny+ca ke+ridge+road&city=
eagan&state=mn&zipcode=>). There is, however, no Clam Cake Road. To
my knowledge, there are no Johnny Cakes and darn few clams to be
found in Eagan. I think they just ran out of street names. It's the
same suburb that has a Yankee Doodle Road; Buffet Way (home of the
headquarters for Old Country Buffet restaurants [Ob food]); Baltic
Avenue _and_ "Boardwalk"; and Westbury Drive, Westbury Lane,
Westbury Trail, and Westbury Way.

At least it's a _little_ more imaginative than western Wisconsin,
where roads get memorable names like F, FF, U, R, ...

sd