Snickerdoodle not American?, Shit on a Shingle in WWII?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Oct 18 23:58:08 UTC 2004


At 4:20 PM -0400 10/18/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>FWIW, by the late '50's, at the latest, a similar dish was prepared
>using hamburger instead of chipped beef, whatever that is. (I assume
>that it's not another name for hamburger.)


Nope, that's chopped beef; same meat, different vowel.  (Dare I say
an ablaut variant of the recipe?)

Larry



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