Dan Abel > wrote in news:dabel-79BDB6.10403827022009@c-61-
68-245-199.per.connect.net.au:

> In article
> >,
> Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig > wrote:
>
>
>> > I grew up in Las Vegas. *I remember this story from an old menu, I
think
>> > from the Golden Nugget or the Showboat. *A miner who had just struck
it
>> > rich
>> > went into a restaurant and asked what was the most expensive things
they
>> > had. *They said oysters and eggs. *He said fry up a mess of them
mixed
>> > together. *The dish was called a Hangtown Fry.
>
>> True story but it happened in San Francisco I believe.
>
> No, SF is on the ocean, so oysters wouldn't have been one of the most
> expensive things they had.
>
> It was...[drum roll]...Hangtown!
>


I can sorta see why they had that name. Just saw a pic of the Hangmans
Tree Bar/Inn!!

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3384430



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