"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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