You know, if I put my mind to it, I could probably eat 50 of these Lorna Doones. I mean, these things are Lena Horne good!

And though I find the following tidbit about the book Lorna Doone from wikipedia interesting, it's worth asking whether the opinion of your average 1906 Yalie is really a testament to a thing's popularity? I mean, by this rubric, a favorite leisure activity is "ballooning", and the dances sweeping our nation are, in descending order, the grizzly bear, the turkey trot, the bunny hug, and the camel walk.

"It received acclaim from many of Blackmore's contemporaries, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, and Margaret Oliphant. A favourite among female readers,[1] it is also popular among males, and was chosen by male students at Yale in 1906 as their favourite novel.[2]"