too funny to languish in a comment
In the comments to
this post, my mom said that she was going to send me some funky sunglasses to send to
profgrrrrl and I said that when she sent them, she should also send whoopie pies for me.
I don't care
what the wikipedia entry for whoopie pies says, they're PA Dutch, not from Maine. I am from
Mifflin Co., Pennsylvania, home of the
Nebraska Amish. Yes, I could explain why they're called the Nebraska Amish even though they exist only in my home county in PA. But I won't. You can read the article.
Mom said this in response to my request for whoopie pies:
There's a rumor going around, supposedly true, that when the Amish are short on milk for the icing in the whoopie pies, they just pump a little breast milk into the mix. Hmmmm. I'll just send some anyway.
While I'm on the topic of my home county, I'd just like to say that the Wikipedia article on the
Central Pennsylvania accent is very well done. The part at the end about diglossia and code switching is relevant for me.
