Eating By Dimensions
aaiediiaatin O NE of the main failings of Irish landladies is a tendency to regard bacon as the mainstay of lite-one is offered "a nice rasher" at any hour of the day or night. until in the fullness of time and wisdom one goes out to buy food and brings it along to be cooked. In this connection I saw a lovely tale quite recently, of an English angler on holiday in Ireland: As he set out from his hotel in Connemara, he told the waiter, "I will expect my dinner‘at 7. o’clock precisely. You will have ready for me a &rilled fillet. of steak, oneinch thick, three-quarters of a pound in weight, done over a charcoal fire, and turned only once. When he came back from his fishing of course he found bacon and eggs on the table. He was very angry. " Did I not order a §rilled fillet of steak,’ he said to the waiter,’"and give you full particulars?" "You did, then, sir," returned the waiter, "and I told the boss and gave him all the measurements, ‘Glory be to. God, Mick, says he, ‘If there was a bit of meat like that in the house wouldn’t I eat it myself’ "- ("On Tour in Southern Ireland,’ by Diana Craig, 2YA, January 1.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 5
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217Eating By Dimensions New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 5
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