regional food
Dennis R. Preston
preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU
Fri Mar 29 01:35:25 UTC 2002
>Maid-rites. Yum-Yum! A bag of Maid-rites, a bottle of Zinfandel, and
>thou beside me singing ......
dInIs
>There was some discussion a year or so ago on ads-l of a sloppy ground beef
>sandwich that went by a particular brand name (which I have forgotten) &
>was appaently known over a fairly broad region in the midwest. Matthew
>Gordon & I both remembered a version of this known as a "Yum-yum" in
>Lincoln, Nebraska. My recollection of this goes back to the 40's;
>Matthew's was from more recently. I don't know how localized this name was.
>A. Murie
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Dennis R. Preston
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