Word: hashed
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...American type, then the various races must give and take within the pot and emerge much alike. But up to the present time there has been little of this expected merging. Instead of a national type, there remains the same widely differing groups, not even as closely conglomerated as hash. Every large city has its segregated cities within the city, chunks transplanted from the old country which have never yet mingled with the soil of the New. Whether it is biologically possible to interfuse all these stocks into one is not definitely known because no trial has been possible...
...crusaders however are not vanquished by this first rebuff. They declare that they will continue their fight against the breakfast egg and that before another week they expect to be rewarded with ash or hash for breakfast...
Perhaps a few years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...
ADAM'S RIB - An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and hokum...