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With true British conservatism he would venture gingerly upon an unfamiliar dish, admit it "wasn't half bad,"…

Date of account: Published 1920
Source: True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural
Reference: True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural · selected passage 41
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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With true British conservatism he would venture gingerly upon an unfamiliar dish, admit it "wasn't half bad," and end by eating as much of it as both of us others together

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With true British conservatism he would venture gingerly upon an unfamiliar dish, admit it "wasn't half bad," and end by eating as much of it as both of us others together. It was finally discovered that a particularly effective way of appeal to his nature was through the medium of baked stuffed tomatoes:--of these he seemed never to have enough, and, as a consequence, they were frequently upon our bill-of-fare during the summer. It seems incredible--and lamentable--that a man should have got well into the fifties without ever having eaten a baked stuffed tomato:--such, however, was our friend's unhappy case, and my wife made strenuous efforts to ameliorate it.

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