"Jerry Avins" wrote

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).

And then, of course, there's hoe cake.

Is that like pasta puttanesca?
;-)

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Bob
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Opinicus wrote:
"Jerry Avins" wrote

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).

And then, of course, there's hoe cake.

Is that like pasta puttanesca?
;-)

Hmmm... No olives in hoe cake.

Jerry
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Opinicus wrote:
"Jerry Avins" wrote

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).

And then, of course, there's hoe cake.

Is that like pasta puttanesca?
;-)

Hmmm... No olives in hoe cake.

Jerry
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Jerry! did that pun really go over your head???

Val

Val wrote:

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Jerry! did that pun really go over your head???

Of course not. The word came to Louisiana through the French "poutain"
and was there corrupted to "poon tang" which, in keeping with the
region's racist past, took on a more specific connotation. Still, no
olives in hoe cake. :-)

Jerry
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Jerry Avins writes:

Val wrote:

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Jerry! did that pun really go over your head???

Of course not. The word came to Louisiana through the French "poutain"

"putain" (round those lips for a kiss on the first syllable)

and was there corrupted to "poon tang" which, in keeping with the
region's racist past, took on a more specific connotation. Still, no
olives in hoe cake. :-)

And, whatever certain "party records" of the past might have claimed
(the name Redd Foxx springs to mind, perhaps wrongly), no such breakfast
drink as Prune Tang, either.

....To continue the thread on a more affirmative foodish note, my
paternal grandmother's fifth and last husband was a great fan of
horehound candies. At the time I thought they tasted perfectly
foul; I don't know what I'd think of them now, but I certainly
haven't seen them for sale in the last 50 years or so.

Lee Rudolph

"Jerry Avins" wrote in message
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Val wrote:

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Jerry! did that pun really go over your head???

Of course not. The word came to Louisiana through the French "poutain" and
was there corrupted to "poon tang" which, in keeping with the region's
racist past, took on a more specific connotation. Still, no olives in hoe
cake. :-)

Ahhhhhhh, so it did go over your head.

Val

Val wrote:

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Ahhhhhhh, so it did go over your head.

Well, no. But your remark above did.

Jerry
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