“If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn’t have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives’ spits.”
Buck Mulligan said that. In the ninteen teens. Just a few pages into Ulysses. By James Joyce.
I guess the good food vs cheap food debate has been going on for a while.
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