German Chocolate Cake antedating

[Wilson Gray]

Don't mess with Texas, Bill. :-)

-Wilson

On 8/4/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> Well, scratch that.  I just saw Barry's report of the 1935 article.
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> Sorry.
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> > Subject:      German Chocolate Cake antedating
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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.
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> > 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
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> > "German Chocolate Cake Roll     59 [symbol for cents]"
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