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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!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

 
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