Note 74 — PEPTIC PRECEPTS.
Reading edition
“Salt, Pepper, and Mustard, ay, Vinegar too, Are quite as unwholesome as Curry I vow, All lovers of Goose, Duck, or Pig, he’ll engage, That eat it with Onion, Salt, Pepper or Sage, Will find ill effects from t’,” and therefore no doubt Their prudence should tell them,—best eat it without! But, alas! these are subjects on which there’s no reas’ning, For you’ll still eat your Goose, Duck, or Pig, with its seas’ning; And what is far worse—notwithstanding his huffing, You’ll make for your Hare and your Veal a good stuffing: And I fear, if a Leg of good Mutton you boil With Sauce of vile Capers, that Mutton you’ll spoil; And tho’, as you think, to procure good Digestion, A mouthful of Cheese is the best thing in question: “In Gath do not tell, nor in Askalon blab it, You’re strictly forbidden to eat a Welsh Rabbit.” And Bread, “the main staff of our life,” some will call No more nor no less,—than “the worst thing of all.”—
See The Lady’s Address to Willy Cadogan in his Kitchen, 4to. 1771.
Some Minute Philosopher has published an 8vo. pamphlet of 56 pages! on the omnipotent “virtues of a Crust of Bread eaten early in the morning fasting!!” We have no doubt it is an admirable Specific for that grievous disorder of the Stomach called Hunger.