[lit-ideas] Re: The Hokey Pokey, usw
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:54:42 -0600
It would be fun to know how the "hokey pokey" reference to ice cream relates
to the well-known "dance" of the same name.
Julie Krueger
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:21 AM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 16-Nov-08, at 9:20 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
>
> Yesterday ... I came across the claim that ice cream cones were invented
>> at the St. Louis world's fair. This turns out not to have been the case.
>> ...
>>
>
>
>> http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/IceCreamCone.htm
>>
>
> From the above-mentioned site:
>
> "Ice cream in a cup also became known as a 'toot,' which many [sic] have
> been derived
> from the Italian word 'tutti' or 'all,' as customers were urged to 'Eat
> it all.' "
>
> I beg to differ. A couple of paragraphs earlier on that same site one
> finds the statement:
>
> "Both paper and metal cones were used in France, England, and Germany
> before the 19th century. Travelers to Düsseldorf, Germany reported
> eating
> ice cream out of edible cones in the late 1800s."
>
> Small quantities of fruit and vegetables are sold at the market in small
> cone-shaped paper bags. The German word for a small paper bag is 'Tüte',
> and the word for an ice-cream cone is still 'Eistüte' (literally 'ice cream
> bag'). Here you have the move from paper to edible 'cone' - and a more
> likely etymology for 'toot' in reference to a serving of ice cream.
>
> Chris Bruce
> Kiel, Germany
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