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Sunday 12 February 2006

A Golden Age: Monday's food quotation

From the greengrocer tree you get grapes and green pea, cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries,
While the pastrycook plant cherry brandy will grant, apple puffs, and three-corners, and Banburys.

1882 W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe act 2

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 22:48
Categories: Quotations