On Sun, 23 May 2004 11:21:08 +0000 (UTC), Tony Walton
> wrote:

>On 2004-05-23 00:45:01 +0100, Michael Odom > said:
>
>>
>> Some of the old timers in south Louisiana use the word shallot to
>> refer to green onions. It's not as bad as the Hoosiers I know who
>> call bell peppers mangoes, I suppose.
>
>That must make for interesting mango chutney! (What's a Hoosier?)

A native of Indiana. I don't know why they're called Hoosiers, but
they are.

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