Poe-TAY-toe or Poe-TAH-toe (Re: Help on britspeak?)

Milz absinthe at mad.scientist.com
Thu Apr 12 19:40:49 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:

> What's a jacketed potato? A baked potato?

It's a unpeeled potato. A potato in its 'jacket' sounds less crude 
than a potato 'skin'. My guess is those Victorians had something to do 
with it.

:-)Milz (an East Coast girl who lived a short time in Iowa and was 
quite flabbergasted when the store clerk asked if she wanted her 'pop' 
{soda} in a 'sack'{the brown paper variety})





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