"What story does the phrase ""Bah Humbug"" come from?"
Humbug (sweet) Lovers" as being a food from the North. The name of the sweet is not related to the phrase "Bah, humbug" from Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol". That expression implies a general dissatisfaction with the Christmas season, connected to the use of 'humbug' as a joke, or especially a fake. However, offering humbugs around Christmas time is now seen by some as humorous or ironic, and was featured in an episode of "Blackadder" in this manner. While awaiting the appearance of a villain in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" episode of "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" series, Jeremy
Humbug reference to Christmas, "Bah! Humbug!", declaring Christmas to be a fraud, is commonly used in stage and television versions and also appeared frequently in the original book. The word is also prominently used in "The Wizard of Oz", in which the Scarecrow refers to the Wizard as a humbug, and the Wizard agrees. Another use of the word was by John Collins Warren, a Harvard Medical School professor who worked at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Warren performed the first public operation with the use of ether anesthesia, administered by William Thomas Green Morton, a dentist. To the stunned audience at