On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:21:09PM -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote: > DARE has 1890 for "mountain oyster." > > > 11 December 1881, DAILY MINER (Butte, Montana), pg. 7?, col. 1: > Mountain oysters at Arcade sample rooms. Yet OED3, despite being "horrible, just horrible," on food terms, somehow has 1865. Your turn again! JTS