BROOKLYN EAGLE etymologies

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   Some terms checked against the BROOKLYN EAGLE full text, 1841-1902.


WINDY CITY--The first citation involving Chicago is 18 June 1887, and then it
occurs very frequently.
   A story on 5 January 1879, pg. 3, is titled:  "CHICAGO: THE WIND SWEPT
CITY OF THE WESTERN PLAINS."

HAMBURGER--A subhead on 3 January 1894, pg. 1, is "I'll Make a Steak of You,
Miss Hamburger."  That was a pun on a woman's last name.
   Nothing much before the late 1880s.

SAUSAGE SANDWICH--
   10 December 1866, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 1:
   A duel is expected in Paris between a journalist and a novelist.  The
former compared the latter to a Frankfort sausage.

   23 June 1889, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 8:
   ...Frankfurter sausage and beer.

   25 September 1891, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 2:
   The small restaurant tents and the sausage sandwich men were eaten out of
everything and still people were hungry.

   28 May 1893, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, "EAGLETS," pg. 6:
   BRAVERY INDEED.
Fritz--is he very courageous?
Mae--Well, I've seen him eat three Coney Island sausage sandwiches in one
day.

   4 June 1893, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 5:
   The fresh air gives them an appetite which makes the suspicious sausage
sandwich and the mysterious clam chowder taste the choicest dishes that even
the wild imagination of Epicurus himself could have conceived.


SMORGASBORD--10 December 1886, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 2:
   On the canal steamers a foreigner studies the peculiar Swedish
institution, the _smorgas_, at leisure, for the _smorgasbord_ in Swedish
restaurants is often so much aside, or in a separate room, that only the men
go to it.  In reality it is a side table set with plates of bread, butter,
cheese, pickles _hors d'oeuvres_ and accompanied always by decanters of white
brandy and _kummin_, a cordial quite the same as anisette.

JAPANESE--"Montauk Club gives a Japanese Dinner," 14 January 1900, BROOKLYN
DAILY EAGLE, pg. 36:
Sashimi (raw fish)...
Misoshiru (Japanese pea soup)...
Teriyaki (bluefish with spinach)...
Unjani (stewed chicken with bamboo sprouts)...
Chawan mushi (baked forcemeat of fish)...
Sushi (rice, with vinegar and cucumber)...
Yohan (a jelly)...
Cha (tea)...
Sembey (wafers made of red beans)...
Saki (rice wine)...

TURKISH--"In a Turkish Restaurant," 12 August 1900, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg.
15:
   ...shouribab mah kiby...mushi cousa...mab labin...kibiz...kalbwal or
Turkish coffee.

DELICATESSEN--
   5 February 1885, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 3:
   ON SALE--BUSINESS CHEAP, grocery and delicatessen store.  381 Atlantic av.

   29 March 1885, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 12:
   No attempt is made to sell foods made or grown in this country, there sold
being what the Germans would call a "delicatessen."
(The article is about a store that sell Chinese food--ed.)