Posted by Jon on January 11, 2001 at 14:34:27 from 199.158.80.11:
In Reply to: Re: Tenor's Travels in Tokyo & Question about Garibaldi posted by Alan Hakim on January 09, 2001 at 21:33:05:
From a discussion elsewhere (earlier on this board, or on another one, about a year ago) I remember someone suggested that they were called "Garibaldi" because the red packaging of the original reminded people of Garibaldi's "Red Shirts". In the U.S., they're made by Keebler, under the name "Golden Fruit Biscuits" (also available in cranberry!). OTOH, there's the Scottish (I think) confection "fly cemetaries", with a very thick layer of unsquashed currants between two biscuits, which may be ancestral to "squashed flies".