Funny Name: Bless You Edition

Based on the title, I thought there might be an exceptional amount of black pepper in this recipe from Kentucky Cooking: New and Old (by "The Colonelettes"-- wives of members of the Louisville, Kentucky, Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1955, though mine is the 1958 second edition).

Nope. Maybe it means that the cream-cheese-and mayonnaise-covered minced clams have a distinctly phlegmy look? Or maybe throwing the word gesundheit on at the end is way to show that the phrase Hors d'Oeurves is too pretentious for Kentuckians to take seriously, so might as well throw another big foreign word on the end? (The spelling of hors d'oeuvres was apparently also too pretentious to take seriously.) In any case, I'll pass on the sneezy clams.