Comments on: Just don’t tell us they forgot the cranberry sauce

By: Sandra_in_the_US

Sandra_in_the_US — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:15:42 +0000

D’oh! Ex-patriate New EnglandER, of course.

By: Sandra_in_the_US

Sandra_in_the_US — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:14:52 +0000

As an ex-patriate New England, I’m betting what they ate for breakfast was a corn-meal and milk mush. Don’t know what they had in the way of sweeteners as the molasses trade with the West Indies was yet some way off. Probably didn’t process maple syrup yet either. That’s what we sweetened it with when I was a kid. The name of this appetizing dish? Indian pudding, of course. These days you get it tarted up with butter and eggs and lots of spices, which I’m sure folks added as soon as they could get their hands on them. The now-common scoop of vanilla ice cream on top wouldn’t have featured in Plimouth either

By: Baja Janeite

Baja Janeite — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:52:49 +0000

One of the articles that I read said that her name was “Jane Adams”!http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/opinion/l-of-popcorn-and-pilgrims-355534.html

For years, I taught my primary students that the Pilgrims ate popcorn with milk for breakfast- that is what many history books claimed at the time. No wonder I was never nominated for “Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year.”

By: Mags

Mags — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:25:47 +0000

I wonder if a helpful copy editor who knew of the existence of Jane Austen, and that her surname should be spelled with an “e,” but was not familiar with the actual novels, made a change? Though one would hope a copy editor would also fact check to be sure it was Jane Austen or Austin or whatever who wrote the book about the first Pilgrims.

By: A. Marie

A. Marie — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:21:25 +0000

First, to answer JaneGS’s question: The copy editors (in the newspaper business, at least) are all being laid off. See my friend John McIntyre’s blog, You Don’t Say (http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/). As a full-time, on-staff copy editor for a book publisher, I feel like The Last of the Mohicans.

Second, Jane G. Austin’s prose style sent me into almost as severe a fit of the giggles as Alert Janeite Lisa’s original tip did. The combination of John Howland’s hasty gathering and Elizabeth Tilley’s firm young teeth is sending my imagination to places where it doesn’t belong.

By: JaneGS

JaneGS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:24:03 +0000

I wonder whether I can get my JASNA group to read this new “Austen” novel, Standish of Standish
A Story of the Pilgrims, instead of Northanger Abbey as we planned for 2010?

Where have all the copy editors gone?