Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site genrad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!doyle From: doyle@genrad.UUCP (Rick Doyle) Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.nlang Subject: Re: local words ("tonic and frappe") Message-ID: <3923@genrad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 16:36:03 EST Article-I.D.: genrad.3923 Posted: Wed Mar 21 16:36:03 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 02:36:15 EST References: <1277@mhuxt.UUCP> <788@dciem.UUCP> Organization: GenRad, Bolton, Mass. Lines: 10 Originally coca cola was a tonic (cured headaches etc.) so eventually all sodas were called tonic in the boston area,where I think the first coke plant was built. Frappes,as I know them,are milk shakes with ice cream in it. from boston, Rick Doyle