Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Not all gourmets are wealthy

     "Tell me ow it comes that your little waitress and her railway clerk come down to Epping Forest to regale themselves on sandwiches made from coal-black, treacle-cured Bradenham ham, which long ago ran as a young wild boar about these woodlands, till death translated it to an incorruptible and more glorious body? I may add that it costs about 3s. a pound uncooked = and argument which you will allow to be weighty."

    "That's odd, certainly," said Parker. "I imagine that only rich people - "

    "Only rich people or people who understand eating as a fine art," said Wimsey. "The two are by no means identical, though they occasionally overlap."

(from Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers)

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