Re: House Call

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

David Auerbach wrote (a good while ago):
> Not pithy, this sharp new saw. Just as there's nothing pithy about the
> complicated muddle that we, the hopeful consumers of fresh fish, face
> staring down at the fish-laden beds of crushed ice at the local seafood
> counter.
>
> What's the muddle?

Sorry it took so long to track this down. Am I correct in
assuming that you're referring to this meaning of muddle, sb., in
the OED:

U.S. A kind of chowder; a pottle made with crackers. (Cent. Dict.
1890)
As for "Pottle," it would seem from this that the word had
acquired the meaning "a dish made in a pottle" in the US, though
not in the British Isles by that period.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx