Club Sandwich

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CLUB SANDWICH

     From the new standard reference, John Mariani's THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK (1999), pg. 87:

   _club sandwich._ (...) The first appearance of the club sandwich in print
was in Ray L. McCardell's _Conversations of a Chorus Girl_ in 1903, and
recipes were printed in Fannie Famer's _Boston Cooking-School Cookbook_ in
1906, indicating the item had been popular for some time.

    Jon Lighter went through that CHORUS GIRL book and picked it clean for
lots of stuff--sounds like he found that.  That's the first "club sandwich"??
 That's the cite also given in Ayto's 20TH CENTURY WORDS.
    I just found "club sandwich" on page 151 of Janet McKenzie Hill's SALADS,
SANDWICHES AND CHAFING DAINTIES (Boston, 1899).  Hill also edited THE BOSTON
COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE, which I'll take a look at when I can.

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STOCK JOCK

   "Stock jock" (similar to radio's "shock jock") also came up in relation to
the movie BOILER ROOM.  Deja.com has 1 hit for "stockjock," 28 hits for
"stock jock."  I'm away from my other databases right now.
   By the way, maybe some legal eagles here know, is BOILER ROOM
writer/director Ben Younger the son of law writer/professor Irving Younger?

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MISC.

   I have just Thursday and Saturday to do stuff, then I leave on Sunday for
Portugal.