"moose milk": antedatings and postdating

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS has 1957-1994

  2007 http://groups.google.com/group/Genealogy-Cumberland/msg/58ee2b5f303efb3b : RCAF Moose Milk [recipe].

  1955 Emily Kimbrough _So Near and Yet So Far_ [N.Y.: Harper] 235: When drinks were served before dinner, we were asked if we would care to have moose milk, a specialty of the house. I declined but was interested to learn it is made with rum, brandy [etc.].

  1948 William Brinkley _Quicksand_ [N.Y,: Dutton] 183: Something Doc had said once after a couple of slugs of moose milk.

  [1908 Cy Warman _Weiga of Temagami and Other Indian Tales_ [Toronto: McLeod & Allen] 166: “ Uh,” he exclaimed, grasping the stem of a champagne glass in his big brown fist, “ that liquor's finer'n moose's milk.” ]

  As one might suspect, the term is most common in Alaska and Canada, but several exx. are from the U.S. Navy.

  JL


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