ProbableNamed from the place
Nanaimo bar
noun · first attested 1950s
The bar's earliest printed recipes may not come from Nanaimo at all.
A no-bake dessert square of crumb base, custard-flavored butter icing, and a chocolate top.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 1950s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Nanaimo
- In English
Nanaimo bar
The name shows up in Nanaimo community cookbooks in the early 1950s, and the city on Vancouver Island has claimed the square ever since. Nearly identical layered bars were printed elsewhere under other names around the same time, so the true birthplace is unsettled.
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