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Subject: Re: Finnan haddie
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:19:32 EST


Kathy is correct in her recipe, no eyes are involved. I think the name was
originally "Findon Haddock" maybe from the location where the smoked fish was
originated. I did not like it much as a 5 year old and don't have much
opportunity to see if I would change my mind, here in the Land of Lutefisk (be
glad you don't know!) To my father, part S-I and raised on the coast during
the Depression, any preserved-fish dish was "soul food" - smoked haddock, salt
cod or whatever.
Someone responded with a heading "Never-mind-the-finnan-haddie" and I
thought he was going to say what my grandfather always did when asked to pass
something "Never mind the finnan haddie (or whatever), eat your supper!" Also
referred to biscuits (American biscuits, round hot bread) as "bannocks." And
this was my grandfather who was virtually all English Puritan descent, all his
ancestors were in Maine by 1790 - but he grew up just over the border from
Canada. They also drank Red Rose Tea from Canada and strong, too!
Nikki S (forgive my maundering, I've got the flu and just better enough to
type a little)

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