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- From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 11:42:50 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
- >Don't settle just for dark rye. Do it right and use pumpernickel!
-
- That reminds me. Anyone ever heard the story of pumpernickel?? It seems that
- Napoleon was taking his army through a country village. When they stopped for
- the night, the French had their own supplies, including nice white bread. The
- local bread was dark and coarse, so the soldiers used it to feed their horses.
- Napoleon's mount was a stallion named Nicholas, Nicole (we would probably say
- Nick) for short, so the soldiers started calling the bread "pain pour Nicole"
- or "bread for Nick." Since French has always been popular on menus, the locals
- (Germans, I assume) stole the name. It eventually became bastardized to pum-
- pernickel.
-
- Honest to god truth.
- Rie.
-
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