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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

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There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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