"Jerry Avins" > wrote in message
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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