M vs Hoecake - What's the difference?
m | hoecake |
The thirteenth letter of the .
meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
milli-
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mass
month or months
cardinal number one thousand (1000)
Image:Latin M.png, Capital and lowercase versions of M , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter M.png, Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur
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A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made of water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe (not a gardening hoe!) now it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
*In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.