Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end of the eighteen century, students developed the habit of expressing disapproval of the food by throwing it around the room and staging huge class fights. One student was suspended for hitting a professor with a baked potato. If he had missed the professor, it would have been considered part of a normal fight. In 1766, the disapproval took the form of the The Great Butter Rebellion, which was only quelled when the Corporation requested the Royal Governor to read the Overseers' resolutions and enforce them, which fortunately occurred peacefully. Several years later, the Rotton Cabbage Rebellion occurred...
...rice and sweet potato fields of Okinawa creep over the slate volcanic soil, covering the shell holes and the bloodstained caves where two great armies fought for eleven weeks. Weeds cover the charred foundations of what once were neat stone houses. Near by rise clusters of lean-tos made of cloth, battered boards and castoff American corrugated iron...
...juice extracted from freshly grated coconut ; do not mistake it for the milk of the coconut. When I originally tasted this, the fish was raw - but it had been soaked in lemon juice for twelve hours and you would have sworn it had been cooked." Grandmother Coxey's Potato Soup. "I have never seen a printed recipe for this soup, but make it according to my father's recollection of how his mother (born and raised in Germany) used to make it for her family of eleven children...
...flatlands to the village of Princeton, where the university of the same name is located. This region was early explored--situated as it was on the edge of the fertile Piedmont plateau, stamping grounds of the Lenai Lenape Indians, close to what was later to become the most fertile potato-growing area of what was later to become the Garden State, it was of the greatest interest to pioneers...
...menus in a one week stay included three meals with macaroni as a main attraction, a meal made up of potato chips and an inedible salad, and meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...