Dinners and Luncheons Part 7

WITH CLAMS

"Fruit of the wave, all dainty and delicious."--_Croffut._

"If you can't speak, sing; if you can't sing, imitate the clam."--_Six Dinners._

SOUP--CONSOMME AND MOCK TURTLE

"Of two evils, choose the least."--_Thomas A. Kempis._

"It's the rules of the house, sir; you must take soup."--_Mark L. Demotte._

FISH

"'Tis sweet and fresh--'twas caught this night."--_Beaumont & Fletcher._

"Now bring along your liars, and let the biggest one take the cake."--_Six Dinners._

TERRAPIN

"A dish that I do love to feed upon."--_Shakespeare._

LOBSTERS

"On eight long feet these wondrous warriors tread And either end alike supplies the head."

--_Homer._

SHRIMPS

"Old Ocean, envious of my ladies crimps, Tried hard to copy them, and--presto! Shrimps!"

--_Six Dinners._

FOR ENTRIES OF VARIOUS KINDS

"Take every creature in of every kind."--_Pope._

"When I have tasted of this sacred dish, then shall my bones rest in my father's tomb in peace."--_Beaumont & Fletcher._

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."--_Milton._

FOR A SPECIAL OR NOVEL DISH

"It's better to be out of the world than out of the fas.h.i.+on."--_Swift._

FROG'S LEGS

"We sport in water or we dance on land."--_Homer._

"Though this be fun for you, 'Tis death to us."--_Fables._

LAMB

"Pray you, who does the wolf love?"--_Shakespeare._

"Ah, gentle lamb! 'Tis better that you be roasted and served to sympathizing human folk than be devoured ungracefully by ravenous beasts."--_Six Dinners._

ROAST PIG

"See him in the dish, his second cradle!"--_Charles Lamb._

"He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die."--_Charles Lamb._

CHICKENS

"We'll not eat crow, but him that crow'd."--_Anon._

TURKEY

"Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving of it."--_Macbeth._

GOOSE

"What's sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander."--_Old Rhymes._

SUCCOTASH

"These be the great twin brethren."--_Macauley._

MACARONI

"Some Jay of Italy."--_Cymbeline._

ONIONS

"So near will I be that your best friends shall wish I had been further."--_Julius Caesar._

GREEN PEAS

"How green you are and fresh."--_King John._

GAME

"Here's a pigeon so finely roasted it cries, 'Come eat me.'"--_Swift._

SALAD

"I warrant there is vinegar and pepper in't."--_Twelfth Night._