Klarinet Archive - Posting 000371.txt from 2004/05

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] 'Being familiar with' is not 'truly understanding'
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:40:28 -0400

Apropos of nothing clarinet related unless we all do it as a Clarinet
Choir, I learned it as ...Buy me some *peanuts* and cracker Jacks....

Audrey

>
>
> Baseball fans (in New York City, I believe?) are in an uproar because
> the stadium concessionaire has replaced Cracker Jacks with Munch-A-Bunch
> (I may have the name wrong). The song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game",
> which is almost the national anthem of baseball parks, says "Buy me some
> popcorn and Cracker Jacks", and therefore it is 'wrong' to replace
> Cracker Jacks at the hot dog stand.
>
> Clearly (?) this is a matter of violating tradition rather than a matter
> of "gastronomical truth'..... I think.

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