Automated restaurant (1896) and Automat (1902); "Brownie" points

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I finally added this post. (See "Irving Berlin at the Automat, 1932" in
Wednesday's New York Daily News, Big Town Songbook, pg. 28;
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Google has introduced an "Automat" of a different kind.
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OED lists 1903 for "Automat," and it's frequently stated that the first NYC
"automat" opened in 1912. Wrong and wrong.
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The form "automat" is short for "automated restaurant," an  1896 product of
Berlin, Germany.
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OT:
"BROWNIE"
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23 November 2005, New York Sun, pg. 19:
According to "The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink," the term
"brownies" first appeared in 1896, but it referred to "a browned molasses  confection
containing no chocolate." The first cocoa-centric use of the term  appears to
have come in 1906, which means we're coming up on brownies'  centennial year.
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(Write to editor at nysun.com -- ed.)