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Thread #72263   Message #4051906
Posted By: GUEST,Helen Cole
11-May-20 - 11:59 PM
Thread Name: Folklore/Linguistics: What's a Rinktum?
Subject: RE: Folklore/Linguistics: What's a Rinktum?
It's a food, Welsh rarebit made with tomato sauce, soup or stewed tomatoes instead of beer. AKA ring tum diddy

It appears that Rinktum Ditty came to America from England, specifically from Cheshire. It became associated with New England, but it clearly spread nationwide, even appearing in a 1917 collection of recipes in Arizona.