Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin

[Sam Clements]

Most cites I can find from the 1940-49 period say the NY police cars were
simply green and white.

SC
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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin


> NYC police cars these days are sky-blue and white. In the forties and
fifties (and perhaps from the beginning)  they were dark green, black, and
white.  So far as I know, they were never referred to as "black and whites."
>
> JL
>
> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> At 11:41 AM -0700 9/4/04, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >I can remember eating these cookies in NYC in the mid-'50s. They
> >were called "black-and-whites" then. Another kind of
> >"black-and-white" was a chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream.
> >
> >JL
>
> and ideally one was not trying to eat the former or drink the latter
> while sitting cuffed in the back of the third kind of
> "black-and-white".
>
> Larry
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> >BLACK-AND-WHITE--not in DARE
> >HALF-MOON--not in DARE
> >HARLEQUIN--not in DARE
> >
> >I'm adding the "black-and-white" to my web site.
> >
> >DARE doesn't pay me this huge salary for nothing.
> >
> >
> >(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
> >Anne's Reader Exchange
> >Paul H., Wheaton.. The Washington Post (1974-Current file). Washington,
D.C.:
> >Nov 29, 1979. p. E23 (1 page)
> >
> >'Look to the Cookie': An Ode in Black and White
> >By WILLIAM GRIMES. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.:
May
> >13, 1998. p. F1 (2 pages)
> >First page:
> >The black-and-white has been around forever. Herb Glaser, the baker at
Glaser
> >Bake Shop on First Avenue near 87th Street, said that as far as he knew,
> >Glaser's has been making them ever since it opened 96 years ago. "When I
was
> >growing up, I'd have two of them for dessert every day," Mr Glaser
> >said. "I was a
> >fat kid."
> >
> >Technically, the black-and-white is not a cookie but a drop cake. The
batter
> >resembles the batter for a cupcake, with a little extra flour so that the
> >dough does not run all over the place when it is dropped, dollop by
> >dollop, on the
> >baking cheet. "The trick is to add enough flour so the batter holds a
shape,
> >but not so much that the cookie becomes dry, which is a common problem
with
> >the black-and-white," Mr. Glaser said. Once baked, it is iced with
> >chocolate and
> >vanilla fondant frosting.
> >
> >
> >What's Black and White And New York as Seinfeld?
> >Florence Fabricant. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.:
Aug
> >4, 1999. p. F2 (1 page)
> >
> >
> >Smart Cookies; Why black-and-whites have assumed deep cultural
significance.
> >Mollv O'Neill. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jan
28,
> >2001. p. SM39 (12 pages)
> >Pg. 39:The black-and-white, that frumpy and oversize mainstay of New York
> >City bakeries and delis, has not endured by dint of its taste. Unlike
other
> >edible icons, like New York cheesecake or bagels, there is no such thing
as a
> >delicious black-and-white cookied. They are either edible or
> >inedible. Fresh-baked
> >and home-baked are the best.
> >
> >Pg. 50:Outside New York, cookies with black-and-white icing are cookies
with
> >black-and0white icing. In Boston, where they are called half-moons, and
in the
> >Midwest, where they are known as harlequins, they are considered ordinary
and
> >have been around, say most bakers, "forever."
> >
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