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Tuesday 28 February 2006
Beef is a poor substitute for venison: Wednesday's food quotation
... till one of the clock, at which time we made an end; and I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
1660 Samuel Pepys, Diary, 6 January 1660