[Life, February 7, 1941. Found while looking for something else. Click for a larger view.]
“When you’ve tasted it, names will come easily.” I bet. But I’m not sure this sandwich ever received a satisfactory (printable?) name. There’s no follow-up advertisement.
Here’s a more difficult challenge: devise an appropriate name for this sandwich seventy years after the fact, without tasting. The ingredients: French toast, currant jelly, chopped nuts, and PREM, pan-fried or broiled. The garnishes appear to be black olives and little bits of shag carpet. Okay, it’s parsley.
When it look at old advertisements, I sometimes wonder how the ancestors manage to make it through meals. PREM, to my surprise, is still a foodstuff.
As the ad says, “Rules and entry blanks at your dealer’s.” (Your dealer’s what?) It’d be simpler to leave your suggested name(s) in the comments here.
Enter today!
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April 6: A reader in New Jersey shared the winning name from 1941: Major Premway, as found in Google Books:
[From Fell’s Official Guide to Prize Contests and How to Win Them (1975). Snippet view only.]
Thank you, reader!
It’s curious that the names suggested by readers in 2021 — Croak Madame, the General Eisenhower (or the Ike), and prem-oh-nosh-in — are, like the 1941 winner, about personal names and puns.
[This post was lost — somehow. I recovered the text and images from the Internet Archive but cannot reproduce the comments.]
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Name that sandwich
By Michael Leddy at 8:51 AM
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