GERMAN GOURMANDS' LAMENT.
THE "GOOD FAT GOOSE OF ,i POMERANIA." lament for the goose, the "good fat luscious goose of Pomerania," finds prominence in the Landwirtschaftliche Wochenschrift:— "Pomerania, the most beloved of all provinces by our table exquisites, will have this year to sacrifice the goose population which has made it famous in (<ertna.ny long before these delectable birds shall have reaehfed their visual state of perfection. "The Pomeranian geese owe their fatness to the corn which is found in such abundance in these parts. This corn is now far too valuable to serve as poultry food, seeing that our people are obliged largely to subsist on potatoes and root? m view of the scarcity of the very material which hitherto has constituted the main nutriment of our Pomeranian geese.
"German epicures will, therefore, have to content themselves with the poorlyfed geese or with no geese at all. We are aware that the prospect has already called forth murmurs of disgust in certain circles, but the authorities will not thereby be debarred from their very just decision to exclude the geese from what remains of our Pomeranian cornfields." ______
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)
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188GERMAN GOURMANDS' LAMENT. Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)
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