Cheechako (B. Popik re-post from ADS-L list)

[David D. Robertson]

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Subject:      Sourdoughs, Alaska Strawberries, and SOS (Salmon on a Shingle)
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ALASKA SOURDOUGH
by Ruth Allman (1905-1989--ed.)
192 pages, paperback, $10.95
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books
1976
Fifteen reprinting, 1999

   I don't know what the next DARE has for "sourdough."  Alaskans are
"sourdoughs."  It's also a term for someone who has "soured" on Alaska and
doesn't have the "dough" to leave.

Pg. 161:
   "Alaska Strawberries"
   The old Alaskan prospector facetiously tried to kid himself into enjoying
his monotonous diet of pay-streak bacon and beans-beans-beans.  He called
them: Alaska Strawberries. (...)
   Many a cheechako (newcomer) could not understand when they ordered
_Alaska
Strawberries_, the waiter served a plate of _Beans_!
(I haven't yet checked DARE, RHHDAS, MOA databases for "Alaska
strawberry"--ed.)