[Ads-l] nova lox (1955)

Alice Faber afaber at PANIX.COM
Sun Aug 4 16:05:00 UTC 2024


Likewise, mid 60s. Nova was the good (more expensive) stuff; lox was 
what we normally got.

AF
On 7/30/24 1:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> Interesting. In our family, in and around that same year of 1955, “Nova” and “lox” were treated as mutually inconsistent co-hyponyms.  Nova was what we had; lox, also known as “belly lox”, was deemed “too salty”.  An alternative was “chicken carp”, a.k.a. “sable”. That was smoked carp, I assume.  Why “chicken carp” I can’t begin to guess.
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> LH
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>> On Jul 30, 2024, at 1:10 PM, dave at wilton.net <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
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>> Advertisement. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 30 November 1955, A-44/1. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
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>> The OED has 1964.
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