[net.bizarre] One More Bizarre Place Name...

wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) (09/13/85)

...is Manteca, California. It's in the San Joaquin Valley between Modesto
and Stockton. What's so strange about Manteca, you might well ask. I didn't
think there was anything strange about it either, until I came across
a package of "manteca" in my local grocery store. The contents of the
package? Lard.

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
     ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill
        (but he avoided Manteca)