Richard Wright wrote:
> 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).

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

Jerry
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