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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce
Wise, Food, Men
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.25, 谷月社

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Cooking, Definitions
Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.70, Prabhat Prakashan

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Men, Oysters
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.177, University of Georgia Press

WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Cereal, People
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2540, Delphi Classics

Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

Ambrose Bierce
Religious, Mistake, Food
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Cooking, Pieces

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Cooking, Lobster
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2375, Delphi Classics

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

Ambrose Bierce
Food, Cooking, Needs
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.14, University of Georgia Press

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