German Chocolate Cake antedating

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Aug 4 22:53:53 UTC 2006


Well, scratch that.  I just saw Barry's report of the 1935 article.

Sorry.

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> Barry Popik's ADS-L post of 19 Jun 2004 give a April 12, 1957
> citation for "German Chocolate Cake", from Texas, and he
> repeats the information on his web page.
>
> It looks like it may not originate in Texas.
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> [advertisement for Piggly Wiggly]
> Wisconsin | Oshkosh | Oshkosh Daily Northwestern | 1956-01-12
> [no page number]
> "German Chocolate Cake Roll     59 [symbol for cents]"
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