..happy endings..

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, George Thompson wrote:

#The marketing people at the Friendly's sandwich and ice cream chain
#must not know of this usage, since they call the two-scoop ice cream
#sundae they offer with certain entrees as a "happy ending".  The chain
#is pretty widespread in the northeast.

Or they don't care. In the population at large the primary and probably
only meaning of "happy ending", out of context, refers to stories,
especially fairy tales. For me, certainly, the Friendly's name always
brought in that connotation on top of the literal meaning "sweet ending"
for a sundae dessert.

-- Mark M.