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Funistrada is a fictitious food item. The term was inserted in a U.S. Army survey of soldiers circa 1974 [1] regarding their food preferences. Funistrada, along with a fake vegetable dish called "buttered ermal" and a fake meat dish called "braised trake", was inserted "to provide an estimate of how much someone will respond to a word which sounds like a food name or will answer without reading."
Maple City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Leelanau County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population of Maple City was 209 at the 2020 census . The community is located within Kasson Township , and lies about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Traverse City .
The word trattoria is cognate with the French term traiteur [3] (a caterer providing takeaway food). Derived in Italian from trarre, meaning 'to treat' (from the Latin tractare / trahere, 'to draw'), [4] its etymology has also been linked to the Latin term littera tractoria, which referred to a letter ordering provision of food and drink for officials traveling on the business of the Holy ...
The center of the township is 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Howard City, 17 miles (27 km) west of Stanton, the county seat, and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Greenville. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 36.1 square miles (93 km 2 ), of which 35.3 square miles (91 km 2 ) are land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km ...
At the 2000 census, [1] there were 1,715 people, 640 households and 490 families residing in the township. The population density was 33.0 inhabitants per square mile (12.7/km 2).
The Grindstone City Historic District consists of about 250 acres of land, including quarry sites and two original buildings. At the time of nomination, there were no other buildings on the site, although subsequently a portion has been turned into a subdivision. Most of the quarry pits have been filled with rubble, and trees cover the operations.
Maple City may refer to: Maple City, Kansas; Maple City, Michigan This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 08:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Additional railroads would snake up the peninsula with lines from Lake Ann and Traverse City to Provemont, Suttons Bay, and Northport. The last railroad on the peninsula, from Traverse City to Northport via Suttons Bay, was removed in 1996. [8] It was subsequently replaced with the Leelanau Trail, a 17-mile (27 km) recreational rail trail. [9]