Fwd: Re(2): 1st Dagwood
Barnhart
barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM
Fri Aug 13 20:06:05 UTC 1999
RonButters at AOL.COM,Net writes:
><Dagwood sandwich mentioned, but first use is not dated.>
>
>Come to think of it, why would the cartoon have mentioned a Dagwoood
>sandwich
>at all? The strip simply showed Dagwood making weird and gigantic
>sandwiches.
>Applying the term probably happened among readers, not as a result of the
>strip-writer's coinage.
That would be my expectation. However, I'm looking for not just the first
use of _Dagwood sandwich_ but also for the first occurrence of the
sandwich in the Blondie comic strip.
Regards,
David
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