[Ads-l] Antedating of "Po' Boy"

[Shapiro, Fred]

po' boy (OED 1932)

1929 New Orleans States 5 Nov. 2/2 (GenealogyBank)

Presently the tree-shaded courthouse lawn was dotted with groups gnawing at the huge sandwiches New Orleans knows as the "po-boy sandwich" — whole loaves of French bread split lengthwise and filled with a freight of ham, sausage or cheese — and drinking from bottles of pop.

Fred Shapiro

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