Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Never accused of superstition or of adhering to age-old antipathies, TIME should know that there is no medical proof condemning the crab for the recurring complaints through the years anent the indigestibility of crab meat...
...describing F. D. R.'s greeting of "Hello, Grouch," to Secretary Ickes, TIME said ". . . Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn...
Secretary Ickes' crab meat MIGHT have left him "wishing he hadn't eaten it," but for TIME to plump down the definite statement that it did is the cause for our comment...
...eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat and ice cream for our luncheons. We have yet to feel...
...mother, Mencken tells little. Of Baltimore food (hardshell crabs with "snow-white meat almost as firm as soap"), of Baltimore sewage (in summer it masked the city with the odor of "a billion polecats"), of his own petty larcenies and light vices, of the alley Negroes (he calls them coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character...