DELICATESSEN & CANDY AND ICE CREAM magazines

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     I've been going through what volumes the NYPL has of DELICATESSEN and
CANDY AND ICE CREAM (also titled CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER).

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DELICATESSEN

    The NYPL doesn't appear to have a full run of DELICATESSEN, either.

April 1928, pg. 8, col. 1:
_Teeney Weeny Sausages_
Little Boy:  "What are wienies?"
Collitch Man:  "Hamburgers with tights on."

May 1929, pg. 21, col. 1--Western Sandwich.

February 1930, pg. 11--Frank and Company of 644 Market Street, Milwaukee,
Wisc., advertises "Pastroma."

July 1930, pg. 22, col. 2:
     _The Four O'Clock Coffee Hour_
     (...) The "4 O'Clock Coffee Hour" is the brain-child of Dr. Sebastian
Sampaio, Consul General of Brazil, and it has been enthusiastically mothered
by the Consuls General of all the other coffee-producing countries of Latin
America.  Its inauguration was celebrated at a dinner in New York attended by
thirteen consular officials and the executives of many corporations and
companies interested in South and Central America, and it has also started in
New Orleans and Los Angeles.
    The "Coffee Hour" was first adopted by the American Foreign Power
Company, a subsidiary of the Electric Bond and Share Company, and was
initiated at the Company's offices at 2 Rector Street, New York, recently.
All officials and employees were invited to assemble at 4 o'clock in the
dining room of the Company's office building, the announcement reading: "A
demi-tasse will be served to those who desire to take this refreshing and
stimulating beverage."  Since that day hot coffee has been served every
afternoon to all employees who can spare three or four minutes to renew their
energies for the final crowded hour of the business day.
(Mariani states that "coffee break" is from the mid-1940s--ed.)

November 1930, pg. 22, col. 1--Lust's Health Food Bakery, Inc of 309-311 East
56th Street, New York City advertises "Bakers of the Original 100% Whole
Wheat Bread" and "Bakers of the Original Genuine Gluten Diab.(etic--ed.)
Bread."

May 1932, pg. 17, col. 2:
     _"Continental Coffee" Highly Popular_
     Recently there appeared on the menu of the Hotel St. Moritz, in New york
CIty, a beverage called "continental coffee."  This on investigation proved
to be a richly flavored, creamy beverage made simply by substituting milk for
water in the making of drip coffee.  According to the head waiter, it was
highly popular with the hotel's patrons.

April 1933, pg. 12, col. 1:
     _Roosevelt Salad Popular_
     (...) Following is the recipe for the new Roosevelt Salad (Col.
2--ed.)(for ordinary family): 1 cup chopped celery, 1 cup shredded white and
red cabbage, 1-2 cup green peppers, 1 cup diced carrots, 1 cup mayonnaise and
1 cup French peas.  Mix thoroughly and serve on crisp lettuce.

May 1933, pg. 1, col. 1--EDITORIAL: Are Americans "Canary Bird" Eaters?
(From Ammer's AHDOI: _eat like a bird._ Eat very little, as in _Jan is very
thin--she eats like a bird._  This simile alludes to the mistaken impression
that birds don't eat much (they actually do, relative to their size), and
dates from the first half of the 1900s.  An antonym is _eat like a horse_,
dating from the early 1700s...--ed.)

May 1933, pg. 23, col. 2:
     _Vass You Dere Scharlie?_
     When legal beer returned to New York, Jack Pearl, the Baron Munchausen
of the radio, lost no time in swinging into action.  In his stage makeup, he
rushed from a broadcast to a beer emporium where he and "Scharlie" (Cliff
Hall, his partner) drank beer and ate chicken-mayonnaise sandwiches--a
favorite new "Dutch Lunch" of the post-prohibition days.
(Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA has "_Dutch lunch._ A slang phrase usually referring
to a buffet lunch consisting of cold meats, cheese, and beer, dating in print
to 1904.")

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CANDY AND ICE CREAM

   The NYPL has some originals (CANDY AND ICE CREAM/CANDY RETAILER/CANDY AND
ICE CREAM RETAILER) from 1914-1919, then just microfilm from 1924-1927.
   January 1924 is titled CANDY RETAILER and lists "San Francisco, Chicago,
New York" and "This issue: Over 10,000 Copies."  Most of the advertised
businesses were from Chicago or New York.  I contacted the Chicago Historical
Society through their web site (you know, the one with "Windy City from the
1893 World's Fair" still on it, years after my work was rejected) and, of
course, the CHS never wrote back.

November 1919, CANDY AND ICE CREAM, pg. 72, col. 1, "The Candy 'Butcher'":
     New York Record:  Perhaps somebody knows where the term "candy butcher"
originated.  He was next to the pink lemonade vendor, the circus attraction
of our childhood days, and he is a constant irritant of our maturer years as
he vociferates the merits of his wares through the train aisles when one
wants to read or sleep.

April 1924, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER--"Candygrams" was the title of a
monthly column of jokes.

June 1924, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 48, col. 1, headline--KIDS
STRONG FOR "LICKRISH"  (See DARE for "licorice"--ed.)

October 1924, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 42, col. 2--The Heavenly Hash
Company, in addition to manufacturing "Heavenly Hash" will manufacture and
feature "Heavenly Hash Ice Cream" and a full line of cakes, pastry and pies.
(Probably not the same "heavenly hash" ice cream.  This was the name of a
company from New Orleans--ed.)

January 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, cover--Drawing of a soda fountain
with "HOT FUDGE SUNDAE" in the background.

February 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 45--The Gardiner-Lucas Candy
Company, 99 Gold Street, Brooklyn, NY, advertises NIB-LICS.  On the package
of NIB-LICS is a boy carrying golf clubs.

April 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM, pg. 62--The Metro Chocolate Comapny, 120-126
Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, advertises "Chocolate M. M. Bars."  (M&Ms
came in 1941--ed.)

June 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 9--The Gardiner-Lucas Candy
Company, 99 Gold Street, Brooklyn, NY, advertises its popular products:
ADMIRALS AND FAGOTS.

July 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 10--An ad for Necco (New England
Confectionery Co., Boston, Mass.) O. K. Toasted Milk.  "A new and delicious
flavor.  Milk toasted to an appetizing degree and combined with cocoanut and
rich cream.  Chocolated coated."  (Not O. K.--Oll Korn?--ed.)

July 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 36, col. 2 (Under a photo of
"POP BEER" and "LEMON BEER"--ed.):
     SODA MANUFACTURER--1861-1865
     The picture shown above was taken in 1861.  It is of Ben "Pop" Green,
known at that time as a soda manufacturer, yet in those days all soda was
classed as beer.  Mr. Green lived in Concord, N. H., and even today in the
remote northern part of Maine, carbonated beverages are referred to as "soft
beer."
(DARE has nothing about this under "beer"--ed.)

September 1925, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 55, col. 1--Hamnegg
Sandwich.

January 1926, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 58--"This Month's Sundae
Formulas."  This was a continuing feature.  Pg. 59 has such names as Niagara
Falls, Danny Boy, Sunny Boy, Aunt Lizzie, Canal Special, and Niggers in the
Fence.

February 1926, CANDY AND ICE CREAM RETAILER, pg. 14:
     _Pink Pigs and Marzipan_
     A candy maker tells us that while on a trip through Norway, Denmark,
Sweden, Germany and Switzerland he saw pink pigs in nearly every candy shop.
These pigs ranged in size from that of a thumb to a good big fist.  Eyes,
nose and feet were touched up with a little color so as to make the pig more
attractive.
     We do not know whether they eat pink pigs regularly in these countries
or if this happened to be a pink pig year.  What we are really interested in
is the fact that the material used to make these little porkers was marzipan.

     I'll have to go to Norway and Sweden next week to check it out.