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Show NEW NAME FOR INDIAN CORN. Englishman's Description of Succulent Vegetable. A lady reader of tlio Washington Post tolls a pretty little story of nn Knglltstimau'ri new name for coru. An Knglluliman and liltt wife tsat near mo In a cafe on tlio avenuo tho day before yesterday. I know they were Kngllsli as soon as I saw Ills coat and her hair. Kvru If f hail not seen theso two unmistakably English things, I should have guessed their nationality from a name they gave to an American dlsli. Tho limn was ordering or-dering luurlieon. "I don't see It on tho hill of faro," ho said to t: e waiter, "hut bring me somo ditto corn If you havo It." "Fluto corn?" repeated the waiter. In surprise. "Yes," said the KiiRlihliman, "fhlto corn." The waiter trtlll hositnted. "Why," went on tho Knglishman, "don't you have It? Tho sort of corn, you know, that one oats llku playing tho flute." And as a delicate euphemism for corn on tho cob, I think "flutu corn" can hardly be surpassed. |
