"Napoleon"?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Nov 7, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Jim Landau wrote:

> 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?

no, it's really "Napoleon".  or, as Vol. I of the Gourmet Cookbook has
it, "Petites Milles-feuilles / often called Napoleons".

but "Napolian" does turn up occasionally as a re- (or mis-)spelling.
here's a double delight: "Napolian" *and* a greengrocer's apostrophe:

... Google. Plum and Fig Napolian's. Prepared by: Chef Roberts.
Ingredients: 1 pkg. puff pastry dough, found in the freezer section of
grocery store; 1 can whole figs ...
  www.wilx.com/recipes/recipes/159017.html

arnold, getting hungry again after being put off by the animal hoarding
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