You know how people say "selling like hotcakes"? What's that all about? Are hotcakes really that popular? If there were a list of top 100 foods sold in America, I bet hotcakes wouldn't even be on there. Maybe there was a point in history that I am not aware of when hotcakes were the thing. Does anyone know where this phrase came from?
Posted by christin at June 24, 2003 11:59 AM | TrackBackSELL LIKE HOT CAKES - "Hot cakes cooked in bear grease or pork lard were popular from earliest times in American. First made of cornmeal, the griddle cakes or pancakes were of course best when served piping hot and were often sold at church benefits, fairs, and other functions. So popular were they that by the beginning of the 19th century ‘to sell like hot cakes’ was a familiar expression for anything that sold very quickly effortlessly, and in quantity." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)
From the first Google entry for "selling like hot cakes"+phrase.
Posted by: jon amos at June 24, 2003 02:17 PMThanks, Jon. I knew someone would get to the bottom of this.
Posted by: Christin at June 24, 2003 04:40 PM