I pondered these types of questions as a child, and discovered many interesting facts, such as: the inventor of the flush toilet was Sir Thomas Crapper, that the Baby Ruth candy bar was named not after the Sultan of Swat, but after President Grover Cleveland's first-born daughter, that hamburger has no ham in it because it was "invented" in Hamburg, Germany, and that Anthony Burgess called his novel A Clockwork Orange from an old English Expression meaning very strange (like a mechanical organism) to symbolize the nature of a person with free will to do good and evil but who can only do one or the other.
I once theorized that since America was one of the few places cookies are called cookies, it might have something to do with American culture. I thought, like Baby Ruth, they might have been named after Dagwood and Blondie's first and only daughter Cookie who no doubt had a great love for cookies but my theory fell apart when I discovered old cookbooks where the term was used years before Cookie was born.
I eventually discovered that my hunch was correct, however, and that it is apparently an American reference, from the first Dutch Americans, who refer to a little baked cake as a koekje or koekie.
So you see, while all cookies are "bakies" not all "bakies" are cookies.
Here's another Carlin question to ponder: "Do Asian mothers feed their babies with toothpicks?"
Here's one of mine: What do you call imitation noodles? Impasta!
Well, I guess that's the whole shebang (from Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, 1862). I hope I didn't wear out my welcome.
Maybe one day I'll tell the story about how my great grandfather invented chocolate-covered cherries ... knock on wood.
I once theorized that since America was one of the few places cookies are called cookies, it might have something to do with American culture. I thought, like Baby Ruth, they might have been named after Dagwood and Blondie's first and only daughter Cookie who no doubt had a great love for cookies but my theory fell apart when I discovered old cookbooks where the term was used years before Cookie was born.
I eventually discovered that my hunch was correct, however, and that it is apparently an American reference, from the first Dutch Americans, who refer to a little baked cake as a koekje or koekie.
So you see, while all cookies are "bakies" not all "bakies" are cookies.
Here's another Carlin question to ponder: "Do Asian mothers feed their babies with toothpicks?"
Here's one of mine: What do you call imitation noodles? Impasta!
Well, I guess that's the whole shebang (from Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, 1862). I hope I didn't wear out my welcome.
Maybe one day I'll tell the story about how my great grandfather invented chocolate-covered cherries ... knock on wood.
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