Word: fatback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo. They succeeded, except for two shmoon (pl.), boy & girl, which Li'l Abner saved for Capp's future...
This is eating humble pie. The evening of the day I wrote the "fatback" letter [TIME, Nov. 18], out of a clear sky, my mother-in-law complained of no fatback with which to season greens. The good wife and I almost fainted. It was the first time either of us had ever heard the word used...
...Fatback & Bristles...
...store, in the days before the AAA messed the cotton business up with red tape, we sold "salt pork" under name of "bacon," "side bacon," and, to the vulgar, "sow belly." That was the only meat we sold and, naturally, I assume that it is your fatback...
...Correct. Fatback is a familiar term in most Southern States...