Subject: Re: more American smiles
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 17:13:15 EDT
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:38:38PM +0100, Scottie Bowman wrote:
> Sure, I remember Kolynos. My memory of the taste
> is a good less than 'wonderful', though. And why do I think
> of a yellowish, creamish coloured tube? (Dig those crazy
> Hemingway adjectives.) You wonder where the yellow
> went? We brushed our teeth with Pepsident.
I don't know -- the version of Kolynos was always pretty tasty to me.
I can't describe it. Sweet and minty, I think.
> Also, whence the name? It sounds pretty Greek to me.
> Basilos Kolynos of Chios.
I've been trying to find out. Don't know.
> And what is a Davila bike?
That, as Midge pointed out, was my early-morning thought-o (like a
typo in the brain). I should have said Davega. I found one for sale
for $300 from an antiquarian dealer -- a ladies' model from the 20s.
As for oddities like this, the U.S. Library of Congress has a useful
web page some subscribers might like to browse....
http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/ABC.html
It includes both Kolynos and Davega!
--tim
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