"Cohen" Crack Corn

[Sam Clements]

And, Jerry's reason for thinking it's "gimcrack corn" is based on .....?

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Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: FWD: "Cohen" Crack Corn


> From Gerald Cohen
> --Barry Popik
>
> [to ads-l, re: Jim crack corn]:
> It's most likely "gimcrack corn," where "gimcrack" (as an adjective) means
> "tastelessly showy, cheap, gawdy." As a noun it means "a showy but useless
> object, a gewgaw." "Corn" (as in "barleycorn") is short for "corn
whiskey."
>     So the slave is saying that he might have only a cheap liquor with
which
> to drown his sorrows, but "I don't care."  The loss of his master has
saddened
> him so much, that the quality of the whiskey is a very secondary matter.
>
> Gerald Cohen
>