"fruit leather"

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 27 01:31:13 UTC 2010


  was it ever a trademark?

     VS-)


On 9/26/2010 9:08 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Horrors!  This 20th-century treat is not in the OED?  I can buy it on
> Amazon.com.  (See, e.g., Twizzlers, or Google the Web.)  It seems to
> arise in 1892, in California (Google Books).
>
> Joel

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