[Ads-l] fudgies

[Margaret Winters]

It's pretty common among Michiganders...


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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu



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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:01 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: fudgies

>From an article in today's (Wednesday's) NY Times

“It used to be all college kids,” said Bob Benser Jr., who owns the Murdick’s
Fudge <https://www.originalmurdicksfudge.com/> shops on Mackinac Island,
Mackinac Island Fudge: Original Murdick’s Fudge Est. 1887 ...<https://www.originalmurdicksfudge.com/>
www.originalmurdicksfudge.com
Original Murdick's Fudge offers 23 flavors of Mackinac Island fudge recipes with all-natural ingredients. Order fudge online. Wedding favors.


between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The Murdick family first
opened a candy shop in 1887, starting a confection craze that is so much a
part of the culture here that summer tourists are called fudgies.
<https://www.postcrescent.com/story/life/2017/06/17/search-fudge-mackinac-island/393099001/>

A version of this article appears in print on May 23, 2018, on Page D8 of
the New York edition with the headline: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?

Not in DARE (the print version) nor OED.

GAT

--
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-
gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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