| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 97.1 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Fri Sep 20 1985 16:23 | 1 |
| led that ?
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| 97.2 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Mon Sep 30 1985 20:01 | 2 |
| I give up. Why ?
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| 97.3 | try this | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Many hands make bytes work | Wed Apr 06 1988 00:43 | 7 |
| Supposedly after the 1000 Islands in the St Lawrence River
(A physical resemblance with all the bits in a liquid maybe?)
Now someone will tell me there is another 1000 islands somewhere
with an equal claim to this fame.
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| 97.4 | YUM - whatever orwhyever it | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 2 Cups de-coffinated caffeine please | Wed Apr 06 1988 07:09 | 5 |
| G'day,
Wasn't it invented in that region? to go on seafood salads?
Dj
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| 97.5 | nit | VOLGA::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Wed Apr 06 1988 21:42 | 4 |
| in re .4 and seafood...it was my impression that the thousand islands
are in a freshwater river
Bonnie
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| 97.6 | Thousands of Islands of good whiskey | VIA::RANDALL | back in the notes life again | Wed Apr 06 1988 23:14 | 21 |
| In the 1920's the Thousand Islands were a very popular resort
area for people from New York and Pennsylvania because during
U.S. Prohibition, liquor was legal in Canada and the Thousand
Islands were the closest part of Canada. Plus, boat and railroad
travel from NYC to the Thousand Islands was good, which made
it an easy trip (roads and cars of the time were not what they
are today...)
There are two stories about the dressing we call Thousand Islands:
1. That it was popular in the islands and the visitors brought
it back to New York with them.
2. That a popular New York restaurant/speakeasy invented the
dressing and christened it in honor of the source of his liquor
supply.
I believe that history leans toward #2 but I'd have to do some
research . . .
--bonnie
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