On 10/27/2010 12:59 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "Doug Freyburger" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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 status to an obscure historical reference to the days of low population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.
>
> Thanks, Doug! Interesting! It doesn't seem to affect the luxuriousness
> of the sandwich
> now though)

Well, for a while shrimp were cheap cheap cheap in New Orleans...I could
get a footlong fried shrimp for less than 5 dollars. And that would be
LOADED with shrimp...so many shrimp they'd be falling off everywhere,
leaving a yummy pile to eat after the sandwich is done. Put that in
your pipe and smoke it, Subway!

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