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Tuesday 28 February 2006

Choice of meat in the Greek islands: Tuesday's food quotation

But beef is rare within these oxless isles;
Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton;
And, when a holiday upon them smiles,
A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

1819 Byron, Don Juan 2.154

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 10:01
Categories: Quotations