On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > It's fascinating that you're familiar with the term "fish wrap." When I > was a youngster, fish were often sold wrapped in newspaper. That's not > been the case for decades, at least around here. Everything's been so > sanitized. The term goes back to long before you were even a glimmer in > your parents' eyes, and that use of the newspaper pretty much became > history before you were even born.
I am a year younger than Boris, so I haven't tasted fish in a paper. However, I believe that lead may well be the reason why it was abandoned. Not so much sanitisation, as sanity :-) Kostas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
