Internal toppings

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Laurence Horn wrote:

> Why not "fillings", as with calzones proper?  I suppose "toppings",
> even unmoored from the original topographic reference, preserves its
> identity as a pizza...

When I lived in Cambridge, Mass. in the 1970s, Steve's Ice Cream called
toppings that were not on top but rather inside the sundae "mix-ins."
This might be an inexact analogue.

Fred Shapiro


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