regional food terms and bake sale?

[A. Maberry]

We seem to always have "bake sales" in the Northwest.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Alice Faber wrote:

> On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 01:25  AM, Ruth Barton wrote:
>
> > Hereabouts they were called "food sale" until fairly recently--when the
> > "flat-landers" started to move in with their "city ways", I assume.  Ruth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 6:52 PM -0600 4/3/02, Victoria Neufeldt wrote:
> >> 'Bake sale' is in the Gage Canadian Dictionary, copyright 1983.  I don't
> >> have access to my copies of earlier editions at the moment, so can't say
> >> whether it was added for this edition.  But I have a hunch the term --
> >> like
> >> the phenomenon -- is considerably older than the '80s.
>
> We had bake sales, under that name, when I was in high school, in the late
> 1960s. This was in a suburb of New York City.
> --
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