“Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.”
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“Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.”
“All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.”
“All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”
“And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.”
“And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.”
Source: John Betjeman's collected poems
Source: Spenser. Book ii of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin