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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: local words ("rubbish and garbage")
Message-ID: <2543@ncsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 10:01:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 10:01:48 1984
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Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh
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When my parents were newlyweds (so they tell me, I wasn't there)
they *had* to separate refuse into "trash" (dry) and "garbage" 
(edible).  The trash went into a landfill, and the city didn't
want anything that would attract rats; the garbage was fed to
hogs on the university farm.  The refuse collectors would refuse
to take the cans (which served an entire student-slum trailer park)
if they found any mixture.  This put my mother in a severe dilemma
the day she dropped a new jar of peanut butter.  My father finally
had to wrap it in paper and sneak it into the dumpster where he worked.

Why am I posting this to net.cooks?
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_Doctor_                           Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney
\__Mu__/                           North Carolina State University