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I wouldn't call the polliss anything that I could write down here!!
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Having suffered a short tenure of a few month's employ at a South Jersey Dunkin' Donuts way back when, I learned a thing or too about the doughnut making process...for all the good it would do me later in life! Anyway, when the jelly donuts come down the line, you grab one in each hand, and there's a machine with two metal prongs extending from it...so you insert a prong into each donut and the jelly is squirted inside! Make of it what you will! and I know you will!
Well, considering that a bit of cream is always poking out of that hole...
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And we mustn't forget how popular donuts were made by that greta song, (from the
late '40s, I think)
"Do nut forsake me, Oh my Darling ..."
Rhuby thus documents La Garbo's first and only appearance in a Western, playing a sidewalk pastry vendor with a heart of gold.
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Mmmm, what a great thread to return to after an absence!
I had a bunch of things to add, most of which I've forgotten.
1. What USns call jelly doughnuts I called a jam-buster. (In general I never use the word jelly, because my mother continually pointed out we rarely eat jelly, but often eat jam. Therefore my sandwiches are peanut butter and jam sandwiches. But I digress.) They don't seem to know the word jam-buster in Newfoundland so I often have trouble ordering one at Tim Horton's, I just don't know what the heck they're called here!
small batches of dough left over from making bread
2. A great Newfoundland word along the lines of the original concept of doughnut is touton, deep-fried bits of bread dough, usually eaten with butter and molasses. (Touton rhymes with floutin', not crouton, with a "Canadian-raised" ou sound.)
3. In the west, we were served similar things known as (a) elephant ears, or (b) beaver tails, and eaten with jam, icing sugar, syrup.... These were flatter and crispier than doughnuts but are definitely from the same genus.
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How many AWAdtalkers know what "spider cake" refers to?
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Rhu -- I've just got back from screening 'High noon' to a very appreciative audience. It was made in 1952 and even after 50 years it still packs a punch! The song 'Do not forsake me …' which was used throughout the film won the Oscar for Best Song (written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington; sung by Tex Ritter).
And was that Garbo or Gynt you had in mind ['that greta song']?
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In reply to:
And was that Garbo or Gynt you had in mind ['that greta song']?
Actually, it was a typo for Garter - I was thinking of Polly, from Under Milk Wood
 
(and thaks for the provenance data, which I didn't know - certainly hadn't realised it was sung by Tex Ritter)
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[tomgue]Ah, a new word coined! And just exactly how do you pronounce it, Rube? 
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Rhuby, You'll note I *also made the Garbo connection farther up. That's OK, I'm used to it.
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Rubrick, obviously Rhuby's tomgue was occupied seeking cream in a hole...  FF, as you probably know, I can drive a couple of miles and watch Krispy Kremes being made; row after row of them, sliding warm and steaming off the conveyor belt... maverick, my drool has joined your [/dribble] :).
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