Tuesday, November 01, 2022

All those foreign foods

 "All right," said the Inspector, dropping his arms wearily. "I give up. Go the whole hog. Go puzzlin' your brains about Chinese oranges and Mexican tamales and alligator pears and Spanish onions and English muffins, for all I care! All I say is - can't a man eat an orange without some crackpot like you reading a mystery into it?"

(from The Chinese Orange Mystery, by Ellery Queen)

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