On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:56:30 -0000, "New Poster"
wrote:

Cookie Cutter wrote:
New Poster wrote:


Twinkies and Johnnycakes would get them rolling in the aisles



Johnnycake is English. Colonists made Johnnycake back in England (If
don't recall the grain that was used) and in the American colonies, it
was made from corn because that was what was available.

never heard of it here. If it did exist in this country I would think it has
faded out as never seen or heard of it.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_b...sages/660.html


Johnnycake is also an Australian term, but the recipe is different
from the American. The Macquarie Dictionary of Cookery distinguishes
thus: "JOHNNYCAKE. A small, flat damper of wheatmeal or white flour as
big as the palm of the hand. It is cooked on both sides, often on top
of the embers of a campfire or in a camp over. In America, a
johnnycake is made of cornmeal and water or milk."

I have also read of these Australian cakes called 'Jumping Johnnies'.
The mind boggles over what a ribald English mind would make of this
phrase. Perhaps American readers already know this, but in England a
'johnny' is a condom (aka rubber in America). Presumably that's a
fall-about joke for American schoolchildren reading about English
'rubbers' (aka erasers in America).