Query: "marvel" as an 1880 food name?

Thu Sep 25 02:34:23 UTC 2008

Is anyone in ads-l familiar with "marvel" as a food name, 1880? (See message below my signoff). I'll forward any replies to Ms. West.
   Any help would be much appreciated.

Gerald Cohen

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From: WEST, ELIZABETH [mailto:WESTEC at mailbox.sc.edu]
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Subject: [archives] use of "marvel" as a food name?

We have an 1880 student letter listing the food he has eaten in a week,
which includes five "marvels."
Is anyone familiar with this term?
The closest we can come to a definition is that marvel is another name
for horehound, so perhaps he was eating horehound candy.

Elizabeth Cassidy West
University Archivist
University of South Carolina Archives
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-5158
803-777-5747 (fax)

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