Crab Boil & Fish Boil & Shrimp Boil (1959)
Clai Rice
cxr1086 at LOUISIANA.EDU
Tue Sep 9 20:00:30 UTC 2003
Some preliminary results from NewspaperArchives.com gets earlier citations
for all three terms. Since I don't have a subscription I can't confirm the
larger contexts, though they kindly provide a little snapshot of half a
column width that helps ascertain that the terms are the ones we are looking
for. Barry or some other subscriber will have to verify them:
CRAB BOIL:
News, Frederick, Maryland, Wed. 18 March 1896
...to a July oyster roast, ... "grand crab boil" is in the air
SHRIMP BOIL:
Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, Mon 27 June 1949
...regional specialties as low c... shrimp boil, gumbo, blac...
FISH BOIL:
Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Mon, 26 July 1954
...will proceed north...Michigan, stopping...Park for a fish boil...
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