Goetta (1952); Honky Tonk (1894) & Tonk Pianos (1895-1926)

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MISC.

OMNIBUS BOY--no hits
BOOYA--What's in it?  John Mariani describes it as a "Minnesota and Wisconsin
dish of meats like turtle, oxtail, beef, or chicken, carrots, potatoes, and,
commonly, rutabagas."

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GOETTA

   I tested the Ohio newspapers with "goetta."  Digitizing the CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER would help me a lot, but no one thinks of that.
   DARE has a first citation of 1983.


   9 October 1952, MARION STAR (Marion, Ohio), pg. 17 ad for Albers Super
Markets:
OLD FASHIONED GOETTA
    Dutch Chef.
    Ready To
    Fry,  Pound   38c

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HONKY TONK

   From today's Sunday NEW YORK TIMES, City section, FYI:

Tickling Tonk's Ivories
Q. I've been told the term "honky-tonk" has its root in New York. True?
A. The origin of "honky-tonk" is unknown, according to Merriam-Webster. But
many musicians say the term, which can mean a type of ragtime music or a tawdry
nightclub, stems from Tin Pan Alley.In the early 1900's, every music
production company had a piano in the office, and from the street you could hear p
eople banging away. Many of these pianos were made by William Tonk & Brothers at
10th Avenue and 35th Street. The pianos and the sounds they made soon became
known as honky tonk.
ED BOLAND Jr.email: fyi at nytimes.com

   Why doesn't he ask me?
   The first "honk-a-tonk" in the DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS and the
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG is 1894.  I recently found the full "honky
tonk" on the American Periodical Series in 1899.
   William Tonk made his pianos, if this Google information is to be
believed, from 1895-1926.
   His pianos are not the source of "honky tonk."  The term does not stem
from "Tin Pan Alley" of "the early 1900s."
   I need some "comfort food."