Note 13 — BRAMSTON'S "MAN OF TASTE"
Reading edition
[12] As they did those of Goldsmith's "Beau Tibbs." "I hate your immense loads of meat ... extreme disgusting to those who are in the least acquainted with high life" (Citizen of the World, 1762, i. 241). [13] The edible or Roman snail (Helix pomatia) is still known to continental cuisines--and gipsy camps. It was introduced into England as an epicure's dish in the seventeenth century. [14] Young chickens.