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Cookie Cutter wrote:
> New Poster wrote:
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>> Twinkies and Johnnycakes would get them rolling in the aisles
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> 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.
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