Word: dobbin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mellon always sits down and names the foals that are scheduled to be born after New Year's at his Virginia estate. It is a larger task than it sounds: there are usually a score or so, and Mellon is not likely to give them naglike names−Dobbin, or Betsy or Mary Sue. Nor, being the aristocrat he is, is he likely to call them anything that sounds vulgar or, God forbid, flashy. No A.J.'s Poppa or Nudie will ever bear the gray and yellow silks of Rokeby Stables. Instead, Mellon chooses names that are close...
...Europe. There, horse meat is welcomed by discriminating continental eaters, who consider it juicier, tastier and more tender than expensive beef. France has more than 1,000 boucheries hippophagiques (horse meat shops); some restaurants in Belgium and Switzerland specialize in horse meat. The taste for steak á la dobbin has not crossed the Channel to Britain, however, where a horse is just a horse, rather than a del-equus...