"Murbles is coming round to dinner tonight, Charles," said Wimsey. "I wish you'd stop and have grub with us too. I want to put all this family history business before him."
"Where are you dining?"
"Oh, at the flat. I'm sick of restaurant meals. Bunter does a wonderful bloody steak and there are new peas and potatoes and genuine English grass. Gerald sent it up from Denver specially. You can't buy it. Come along. Ye olde English fare, don't you know, and a bottle of what Pepys call Ho Pryon. Do you good."
(from Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers)
The reference to "English grass" puzzled me. I found one recipe on the internet for English grass soup, which might be what Wimsey is referring to.
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