I bin wantin' an excuse to mention the frisbee. The original frisbee WAS a
tin pan. Made by the Frisbee Pie Company. On breaks workers used to throw
upsidedown pie pans back & forth for fun.
--Lodestone
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:30:46 -0700, Duane Wheeler wrote:
>
>
> Josh wrote:
>
> > FCFers and anyone else who would know.
> >
> > I had a couple recommendations to keep the name
> > TinPan, and although I can't think of any example of
> > how it has to do with Frontier style maybe you folks
> > can. If anyone knows a example of how it relates to
> > the Frontier style please send it my way and I'll keep
> > the name.
>
> *I know from experiance banging on a Tinpan can wake the dead and scare
> Bear! *The entire history of American intrest in California is based on
a
> "Tinpan"
> used to sort out Gold from the placer streams of "El Dorado"...
>
> Placer miners would 'fire a pan to darken it with carbon and heat to show
the
> "color"
> as they dipped and swirled river bottoms...
>
> Tin Pans doubled as bake'n trays for sourdough bread...cooked right in
the
> fire
> or later in ovens.. *Just how did the trail cookie serve Mooseberry Pie
> without
> the essencial "TINPAN?"
>
> If'n I was a headed fer Rendezvou in the early days.. I'd be looking to
get
> a new shirt and a tin pan to eat out of! Life changed for the better
when
> Hudson's Bay sold cast iron pots.. *People could boil food and serve it
hot!
> ...into a Tinpan!
>
> Yes they used goards-wood bowls and carved out burls.. *But the lowly
> tinpan or Pieplate was easy to carry and lasted a long time.. It was just
> 'civilized...
>
> Mayby you could develop it into a Frountier "Frisbie?" like in "Back to
the
> future 3"
> <G>
>
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> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Josh
> >
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