Q: Best source for debunking 1904 "iced tea"?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:10 PM -0400 7/17/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
>How about "crying Wo'lF"?
>
>m a m

Argghh.

LH

>On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>wrote:
>>
>>  At 2:20 PM -0400 7/16/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>>  >On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >>  What is the best source for debunking the myth that iced tea was
>>  >>  invented at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?  And, possibly,
>>  >>  debunklng that it was popularized there, since there are a number of
>>  >>  quotations from the 1870s?
>>
>>  I think there are even more food products or product names
>>  incorrectly claimed to have originated at various World Fairs (where
>>  undoubtedly a lot of folks from a lot of distant places did first
>>  come across them) than words incorrectly traced to Wolof.  "Crying
>>  World's Fair" doesn't have the same ring to it, though.
>>
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