Word: aspic
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great...