S'mores (1953)

[Barnhart]

sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM,Net writes:
>The term "s'mores" was applied to  graham crackers, topped with milk
>chocolate and marshmallows & stuck under the broiler long enough to
>toast
>(or at least melt) the marshmallow at least a decade before 1953.  It
>didn't have to be covered with another cracker, and I never heard of the
>thin mint variation.  I remember this from the year I was a girl scout,
>1941-2.  Can't cite a text for this, but the term was certainly in use.


See The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 12.2) e.q.=1927 (as _some
mores_ in _Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts_).

Regards,
David Barnhart

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