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...more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
Senator Stanfield of Oregon, "America's largest producer of wool and mutton...
...gentle-hearted Charles is delightfully evident in Mr. Ladd's "Deductions from the Death and Burial of Two Pigs." A delicious phantasy this! We trim our leg-o'-mutton sail and are off for the El Dorado of Roast Pig--which is none other than Old Man Pratt's farmhouse, over to Grennell's Green. Son Jake greets us at the door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like...
...these words, representatives of Western livestock and packing interests told the Food Administration that, as there is no shortage of food except in pork and its products, abstinence from wheat and beef involves an unnecessary sacrifice. If this be true, and if, as they say, stocks of beef and mutton are pilling up in cold storage, what better proof do we need of the President's statement? --New York World...
...must remember," shouted the fiery evangelist, "that we can't create a desire if it isn't there. A red-headed kid with a stone bruise on each heel can ride a Kentucky thoroughbred to water, but a college professor with mutton-chop whiskers and 49 diplomas can't make him drink...