Nancy Young wrote:

> "All4free" > wrote
>
>
>> You can't leave New England
>>without trying the salt water taffy
>
>
> That's a new one on me. New England known for salt water
> taffy.
>
> nancy
>
>

Where do you think of when you think "salt water taffy"? My family's
from southern Maine so I think "Old Orchard Beach."

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Charlene Charette wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> "All4free" > wrote
>>
>>
>>> You can't leave New England
>>> without trying the salt water taffy
>>
>>
>> That's a new one on me. New England known for salt water
>> taffy.
>>
>> nancy
>>
>>
>
> Where do you think of when you think "salt water taffy"? My family's
> from southern Maine so I think "Old Orchard Beach."
>
> --Charlene
>
>

Provincetown, MA. or Estes Park, CO. so I don't necessarily
think of it as a coastal or N.E. thing.

gloria p

> Where do you think of when you think "salt water taffy"? My family's
> from southern Maine so I think "Old Orchard Beach."

I think of the New Jersey shore...
Boardwalks...

In article >,
ess says...
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
> > "All4free" > wrote
> >
> >
> >> You can't leave New England
> >>without trying the salt water taffy
> >
> >
> > That's a new one on me. New England known for salt water
> > taffy.
> >
> > nancy
> >
> >
>
> Where do you think of when you think "salt water taffy"? My family's
> from southern Maine so I think "Old Orchard Beach."

Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?

I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.

> Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?
>
> I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
> little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.

RI to me is Quahogs...

In article <VqAng.96946$IK3.13691@pd7tw1no>, ByRequestOnly@cyber-
rights.net says...
> > Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?
> >
> > I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
> > little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.
>
> RI to me is Quahogs...

Interestingly there's great debate over the spelling of Quahog. Some
spell it Quahaug, others Quahog. I'm of the Quahog camp.

> Interestingly there's great debate over the spelling of Quahog. Some
> spell it Quahaug, others Quahog. I'm of the Quahog camp.

Interesting, because I double-checked with Merriam-Webster before I
posted...
They go with Quahog...
Of course, since the word comes from a non-written language (poquaûhock,)
can any spelling be definitive...?

In article >,
T > wrote:

> In article <VqAng.96946$IK3.13691@pd7tw1no>, ByRequestOnly@cyber-
> rights.net says...
> > > Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?
> > >
> > > I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
> > > little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.
> >
> > RI to me is Quahogs...
>
> Interestingly there's great debate over the spelling of Quahog. Some
> spell it Quahaug, others Quahog. I'm of the Quahog camp.

What about gooeyducks? ;-)
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> What about gooeyducks? ;-)

That's the Pacific...
Pronounced 'gooeyducks'
spelled 'geoducks'

While on the topic of spellings no coinciding with pronunciations...
There is a cove on the central coast of BC named
"Skowquiltz"

Pronounced "Shwilk"

In article <iqDng.94656$iF6.1007@pd7tw2no>, ByRequestOnly@cyber-
rights.net says...
> > What about gooeyducks? ;-)
>
> That's the Pacific...
> Pronounced 'gooeyducks'
> spelled 'geoducks'
>
> While on the topic of spellings no coinciding with pronunciations...
> There is a cove on the central coast of BC named
> "Skowquiltz"
>
> Pronounced "Shwilk"
>
>
>

Oh damn. Around here we just get names like Woonsocket, Pawtucket,
Woonasquatucket, Moshasuck, Narragansett, etc. Pronounced exactly as
they're spelled.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:17:25 GMT, ~xy~ wrote:

> > Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?
> >
> > I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
> > little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.
>
> RI to me is Quahogs...
>
I think about a newspaper covered table and ordering buckets of clams
with clam liquor on the side.

--

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A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

sf > wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:17:25 GMT, ~xy~ wrote:
>
>> > Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?
>> >
>> > I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
>> > little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.
>>
>> RI to me is Quahogs...
>>
>I think about a newspaper covered table and ordering buckets of clams
>with clam liquor on the side.

When I here Quahog... I think 'Family Guy'...

D.
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In article >,
says...
> sf > wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:17:25 GMT, ~xy~ wrote:
> >
> >> > Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?
> >> >
> >> > I think of what once was, Rocky Point Park, in Warwick, RI. Or the
> >> > little restaurants in a section of Narragansett called Galile.
> >>
> >> RI to me is Quahogs...
> >>
> >I think about a newspaper covered table and ordering buckets of clams
> >with clam liquor on the side.
>
> When I here Quahog... I think 'Family Guy'...
>
> D.
>

That's because Seth MacFarlane the writer and talent (He does the voices
of Peter, Stewie and Quagmire) went to RISD. He actually grew up in CT,
not far from the RI border.

Check out his Class Day speech to the Harvard class of 2006:

http://tinyurl.com/je2ah

In article >,
T > wrote:

> Where do you think of when you hear "Johnny Cakes" or "Clam Cakes"?

I think of Eagan, Minnesota (not far from where our illustrious Jam
Lady lives), where there is a Johnny Cake Ridge Road
(<http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...ss&country=US&
addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popf lag=0&latitude=&lon
gitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=johnny+ca ke+ridge+road&city=
eagan&state=mn&zipcode=>). There is, however, no Clam Cake Road. To
my knowledge, there are no Johnny Cakes and darn few clams to be
found in Eagan. I think they just ran out of street names. It's the
same suburb that has a Yankee Doodle Road; Buffet Way (home of the
headquarters for Old Country Buffet restaurants [Ob food]); Baltic
Avenue _and_ "Boardwalk"; and Westbury Drive, Westbury Lane,
Westbury Trail, and Westbury Way.

At least it's a _little_ more imaginative than western Wisconsin,
where roads get memorable names like F, FF, U, R, ...

sd