"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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