"Napoleon"?
James A. Landau
JJJRLandau at AOL.COM
Sun Nov 7 17:51:47 UTC 2004
There is a type of pastry whose name I always assumed was spelt "Napoleon",
perhaps because a certain Emperor had to go to the water-loo after eating too
many of them. But in my local grocery today I found for sale "Napolians". Is
this the correct spelling? A hypercorrection by somebody who thought they
were really Italian? Chauvinism from a Neapolitan in exile from the ice cream
department?
- Jim Landau (whose only expertise in pastry has to do with pi)
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