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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This made perfect sense to me as a child, because my mother did not peel her potatoes when making this dish. Each thin slice seemed to scalp the potato. Of course the correct term is scalloped potatoes, which makes sense also. The round shapes of potato laid overlapping like fish scales seem like a scallop of lace.
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Excellent: another perp confession. Such is (to my mind anyway) the gold standard.
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(Already noted, btw: here )
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2015-06-01 14:05:16)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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