"ravenlynne" > wrote in message
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> 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 status to an obscure historical reference to the days of low population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!

lol I know.... it was the same in UK in days gone past --
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