Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hcr.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcr!tom From: tom@hcr.UUCP (Tom Kelly) Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.nlang Subject: Re: local words ("tonic and frappe") Message-ID: <599@hcr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 21:08:52 EST Article-I.D.: hcr.599 Posted: Mon Mar 19 21:08:52 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 21:13:29 EST References: <1277@mhuxt.UUCP>, <788@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto Lines: 8 Growing up in Newburyport, Mass. (says my wife), milkshakes were simply shaken milk and syrup. Only frappes had ice cream in them. Soda was soda-water, tonic was fizzy beverages (e.g., Coca-Cola (tm, no doubt), and tonic water was called "quinine". She has no idea what "quinine" became when mixed with heathen liquor. Tom Kelly {utcsrgv, utzoo, decvax, lbl-csam, ihnp4}!hcr!hcrvax!tom