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Show QUEER DISHES OF 1582. Remarkable Viands Served at a Banquet Ban-quet In London. A Spanish visitor to London In 1GS2 describes n banquet of that day: "I will tell you no lyo," ho begins cautiously: cau-tiously: "I saw such kindes of mento eaten as are wont to bo seno and not eaten; as n horso rostcd, a cat In gely, llttlo lizards with whot broth, frogges fried, and divers other sortes of locates, which I sawo them ente, but I never knew what they wero till they were eaten." Tho "quaking custard" of that period was a lingo dish In tho middle of the table, Into which, "at a private signal, tho city fool suddenW leaped, over tho hends of tho aston!:dicd fcastcrs, whq wero Instantly be .pattered with this rich and Bavory mud." Undctorred, how-over, how-over, by this nasty behavior, the citizens citi-zens not only nto plentifully of tho custard, but even took somo homo to their wives. Nor wero tho women of those days backward in demanding expenslvo dainties for themselves. It seems; for nti essayist of 1001 sarcastically sar-castically asks: "Who will not admire ad-mire our nleo dames of Loudon, who must havo cherries at 20 shillings a pound, nnd pcascods at G shilling n peck? Yong rnbbettes of a spaimo, and chickens of an liuh?" |