s'more history

[Jane Clark]

I have been on vacation and am catching up so perhaps this is old news but I
remember once on WGN radio (in Chicago) Floyd Brown called them "ess-mores."
I have no idea what the ad was for. And they never let him forget the
mistake.


>From: Barnhart <ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: s'more history
>Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:50:00 -0400
>
>I have looked through the ADS-L archives and found not mention of how
>old this phenomenal culinary item has been around other than the
>elusive reference by several folks that they knew them from their youth.
>
>Any early evidence or leads would by much appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>David K. Barnhart
>Barnhart at highlands.com


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