The Archive · 1929

What an Englishman Eats

Apr. 23.

"Beer, the Bible and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is." Nothing ig said in Oscar Wilde's epigram about beef and broccoli. But it seems that the fate of a general land "once removed,' to hang upon them. Ever of course, claim to be the peculiar repository of the seven deadly virtues. And one would thought they would equally have stood for the roast beef, although now it appears as if Mr. Lloyd George were for preferring "bully" and will be feeding his road-makers on iron rations if he zets back to power. But broccoli, there can question, belongs to the Conservatives. The enterprise and ce-operation of Cornish growers,

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