Seitan, a wheat-based meat substitute (1990)

[Imran Ghory]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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>    Vegetarians eat satan?
>    Not in OED or Merriam-Webster.  Over 17,000 Google hits.
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>    30 November 1986, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 697:
> (Couldn't get full text for this, just an article summary without the word--ed.)

A 1984 usenet message spelling it "setan",

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=202%40bpa.UUCP&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

Imran
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