[Welsh Rabbit]

I found most of the Confederacy of Dunces reference I made online:
"There is a certain New Orleans city accent...associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, New Jersey, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans." --John Kennedy O'Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

[SE Mom]

I've been thinking about that book all week:)