Buffalo a la Mode To the Editor of the '"Norni-Cumwa Darty News"
'Sum,—Long-suffering guests of many Chinese-owned, but foreign-style boarding houses, under the nominal management of elderly ladies, are' today. true victims of circumstances brought about by the China Incident and are obliged to satisfy the inner! man by consuming food prepared in the main from buffalo flesh in every' shape and form.
For some months now my daily diet of buffalo has made me feel like a Grand Master of the Ancient Order: of Water Buffaloes. T have consumed dishes prepared from almost every Part of the lumbering quadruped, cluding tails, tongues, tripe and whi have you belonging to the animal? Th menu put before the boarders for perusal' falsely describes the plat clu Jour as beng ox or beet. And what lett over from some meals is.often hashed up fo make its appearance on the festive board under the name and style of "Scotch pie." This is just another insult to Scotland.
One often wonders why our Public! Health Department so passively re-rains from interfering in this fraud upon guests of licensed boarding. houses, or Private Hotels as they are now styled under a recently publish. ed set of regulations. Surely a clause could be added to this set of rules forbidding misdescription of food. Usted on menus and' providing that when buffalo flesh is served. it must peso described and not falsely stated to be beet or ox, which it is not, T have long since decided that the ame of: the establishment where I have the misfortune to reside could with every, justification and appropriateness be changed to "Buffalo Lodge" and to saying T fect that the Buffalo running through my veins alves ample cause that T" shout subscribe myself Shanghai, Feb. 15, Burrato But.
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