My 15 year old son and I just returned from Colorado.  He boarded at
Buttermilk one day and after insisted he wanted to try some.  Not good,
apparently. My Grandmother used to have us eat a scoop of butter before we
went out drinking as teenagers and young adults.
MADD about budder....
Best,
Leland

Leland R. S. Torrence
Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild
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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:08 PM
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Subject: [BP] Buttermilk for the gamblers?

From the New York Times, December 4, 1951:

> Sometimes surprise attacks from completely unsuspected quarters briefly
> embarrassed the syndicate ... On the night of July 2, 1943, operatives of
the
> Office of Defense Transportation in New York trailed a fleet of cars to a
> syndicate dice house in Fort Lee [New Jersey], two blocks north of the New
> Jersey end of the [George Washington] bridge.
>
> The Defense Transportation men were not concerned with the dice playing at
> all.  They had just followed the cars in a routine check on gasoline
rationing,
> and were a little astonished when it developed that they had joined a
caravan
> of New York dice players being conveyed to Bergen [County, New Jersey] as
> syndicate guests.  Since the wartime regulation provided no extra gas
ration
> for sporting gentlemen, they picked up the drivers.
>
> Before this story got into the papers, the syndicate quietly folded its
dice
> equipment and reopened next night in adjoining Cliffside [New Jersey].
> The Prosecutor and his staff were in a spot because they had not been
> warned.  All they found in the place was fifteen empty milk bottles and
> some gaming slips.  Dice players incline to ulcers because the game
> induces tension, and the understanding syndicate always supplied milk
>  and buttermilk for them.

I came across that while doing Political Graveyard research on the
trouble and disgrace some New Jersey mayors got into during that era.

                                               Larry

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