18-day antedating of "peanut butter"

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A recipe for peanut sandwiches made from your own roasted and grated
>> peanuts ends:
>
>
> What are "peanuts ends"?
>
> [A recipe for peanut sandwiches made from your own roasted and grated
> peanuts] ends:
>
> Oh.

You're thinking of peanut ends, Wilson; very different.  Reminds me:  Is it a fact of etymology or a "fact" of etymythology that "Cold Duck" (you young'uns should ask your parents) originated as a misreading/mistranslation of "Kalte Ende", cold ends of opened wine bottles, i.e. chilled leftover wine, as "Kalte Ente"?  I see the wiki entry mentions that the former was "humorously altered" to the latter, but that seems somewhat implausible.  Or not.  Anyway, just the thing to wash down those peanut ends.  Or peanut ducks.

LH

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