".. all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed...." T.Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
Post by harpskiddie on Sept 13, 2006 12:24:43 GMT -6
Horse:
DC is correct - it was Calhoun's cake. An interesting thing is that Jimmie's birthday wasn't until 24 August. Ugh, yuck!! Maybe it wasn't a birthday cake nafter all. So far as I know the cake would have been with Calhoun's belongings with the packs, but I have never closely researched the subject. It's just another of the ephemerae that I find casually interesting, but not worth wasting my time on. When time becomes limited, one tends to alter one's priorities.
I've mentioned this before, to the horror of all hygiene-minded Americans: in Britain we have a traditional Christmas cake recipe that demands to be made weeks, even months, before it's eaten. People who bake will be starting to get their ingredients together about now. It's a rich fruit cake: lots of assorted dried fruit, some alcohol (which may help preserve it), dark treacle/molasses, that sort of thing. And it lasts for ever; you'll find people still gamely ploughing through the remains of it at Easter! From Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course, p. 606: "Rich fruit cakes are best made about eight weeks before they are needed, but if you can't manage this, it's not a disaster: they just taste better if they mature a little." If it was that sort of cake, it would have been just about perfect for his birthday. Especially if it was kept in an airtight tin. It would have been fine.
Post by harpskiddie on Sept 14, 2006 9:16:38 GMT -6
Elisabeth:
About the fruit cake. The recipe made its way over to the New World a long time ago, as Horse points out. I don't even buy store-made Christmas fruit cakes until they're at least a year old, and my aunt's side of the family took great relish in freaking guests out by bringing down two or three year old cakes from their attic to serve to casual gatherings.
We never did get into the old English habit of aging birds by hangind them until they fell off the hooks, although I do like my poultry on the rare side of cooked, which I think I got from my Scots grandmother.
".. all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed...." T.Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
Post by harpskiddie on Sept 14, 2006 20:30:20 GMT -6
That was SALLY Manilla.
Sal Manilla co-starred with Jimmy Dean in Rebel Without A Cause, and was also in Exodus and the Gene Krupa Story and other movies that needed a young Italian kid to play a young Jewish kid, there being no young Jewish kids in either Hollywood or New York.
Both Jimmy and Sal became famous for different reasons. Jimmy went on to found a sausage empire and Sal died in a garage after eating some of Jimmy's sausage without cooking it first. A bacterial organism was named after Sal. They were gonna call it gingavitis, but that had already been taken by Ginger Rogers.
Time lines, indeed!! Posters to this thread refuse to allow themselves to be bound by rules of pertinence or evidence or engagement. Velvet handcuffs are a different matter.
Post by harpskiddie on Sept 14, 2006 23:52:56 GMT -6
Hostler:
The maps are in the mail, suitably annotated, with positions marked in so many colors that you'll go mad trying to decipher them . It's a good thing that my video card generates 256,000,000 colors.
The dotted lines denote movements of the individuals; but I was unable to determine the actual locations of a) the river - I had heard there was one involved but could not find a name b) the hills or mountains or whatever there were. Since there were supposedly ravines, I figured there must be some elevation changes, but I couldn't find out where they should be. c) the refreshment stands.
I have placed two large black Xes on the maps. One to denote the location od the Jimmy Dean Sausage Factory, and one to mark the spot of the Sal Manilla Memorial Hockey Arena.
