Obamarama

[chanaleh]

ablock sent me this link almost a month ago: Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama.

All I could think was: "Barack Obama does not sleep. He waits." And, lo and behold! someone else had had that thought first. http://www.barackobamafacts.com/

Plus, hot off the presses today (again from ablock), here's a fifty-first thing: Obama is a fan of Lyndell's Bakery in Somerville. "Lyndell’s signature half-moons are gaining national recognition as a large order was shipped to Washington, D.C., to celebrate Barack Obama’s victory. President-elect Obama used to live in Somerville when he attended Harvard Law School."

(Notice they don't refer to the cookies as "black-and-whites", though. Too racially charged? ;-)

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Nw; it's because, regionally, those are called half-moons. I've had arguments about this one with folks and I maintain that the proper name IS "half-moons".

[cos]

"half moons" is the New England name for them. In other parts of the country they don't call them that. I think "half moons" is a great name and make a point of always using it. But chanaleh may still be a littlle bit midwestern :)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Them's fightin' words. >:-)

I'll have you know that as a native Midwesterner, I do not recall ever HAVING cookies with the half-moon/b&w nature before I came to Boston.

... But my impression further is that "black-and-whites" are rather a New York thing, and that I have encountered the cookies in the context of more people with a New York influence; therefore that's the principal name under which I have come to think of them. However, I also understand that there appear to be regional differences in the actual cookies, not just the names, indicating a sort of evolutionary divergence of species between them.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Hey, the apartment he used to live in is less than a mile from the NESFA clubhouse!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Hmnph. One of those "Barack Obama facts" is wrong.

It says, "Barack Obama has the ghosts of JFK, Ghandi, and Jesus on Ouija-board speed-dial."

They got that one mixed up. The truth is that the ghosts of JFK, Ghandi, and Jesus have Obama on Ouija-board speed-dial.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

The cookies that are called "half-moons" up here are quite different from the "black & whites" that I grew up with. I'm glad they have a different name, because it prevents confusion (except that it doesn't really).

[bluepapercup]

I'd never heard them called black-and-whites until I moved to Boston.

Where I grew up (central NY state) they were half-moons. They were also much more delicious than the dried-out junk they call black-and-whites.

[shumashi.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.