Treacle Tart (1871); OT: Next Travels
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Fri Feb 28 04:10:44 UTC 2003
OED beat me on "treacle tart"? I don't think so.
From HARPER'S WEEKLY, pg. 142:
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71-02-18
. . . rred that he did
not know what he was eating. On one especial
occasion his landlady had given him hopes of a
fruit pie, but the performance had come far short
of the promise; he had expected bilberries, but
he was put off with a treacle tart.
"You must smack your lips over a dinner like
this, I should think," was Mr. Horn Winthrop's
graceful comment upon this sad experience.
"He has earned it, at all events," observed the
. . .
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OT: NEXT TRAVELS ON THE WORLD TOUR
I'm uncertain about my next travel plans. I'll be around NYC for tax-time and Passover (March-April), and then I'll head off to Slovenia & Croatia in May. There are two tours (below) that go there. I might do a June 15-22 cooking tour of Sicily (below), which could connect to May 29-June 14 Slovenia and Croatia but is 3 1/2 weeks straight. I know that Kathleen Miller has been to the former Yugoslavia. Suggestions are appreciated.
http://www.mircorp.com/scaa.html
http://www.adventures-abroad.com/cf/query_tourdetails.cfm
http://tograndmothershousewego.com/pages/Itinerary_sicily1.html
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