On 10/27/2010 12:45 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> OK thanks. So it's a sandwich.. but why po'boy? Is it a contraction of
>> 'poor boy'? If so.. why?
>
> It's made from foods that were gathered by hand from the wild. Long
> enough ago such foods cost only labor and what the poor had in abundance
> was labor hours.
>
> As labor became more expensive over the decades and as wild foods became
> more rare, the name gradually switched from an observation of current
> status to an obscure historical reference to the days of low population
> densities.

Exactly.

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