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Tuesday 22 November 2005
'Chips of potatoes' in pre-Revolutionary Paris? Wednesday's food quotation
Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
1859 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities part 1 chapter 5