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Wednesday 08 February 2006
Rye bread and other cures for constipation: Thursday's food quotation
He tells me ... that I must drink now and then ale with my wine, and eat bread and butter and honey -- and rye bread if I can endure it, it being loosening.
1663 Samuel Pepys, Diary, 17 November
Tuesday 03 January 2006
Not eating prunes: Tuesday's food quotation
She was not a girl who believed in mincing her words, and a racy little anecdote she told about a man who refused to eat prunes had the effect of causing me to be a non-starter for the last two courses.
1930 P. G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! 'Jeeves and the old school chum'