SC - Conspicuous consumption
Ian van Tets
ivantets at botzoo.uct.ac.za
Tue Feb 2 10:05:11 PST 1999
Peacham (Complete Gentleman) also has this to say about the French
and their version of conspicuous consumption:
'Concerning their diet, it is nothing so good or plentiful as ours,
they contenting themselves many times with mean viands. Only in the
solemn feasts and banquets of entertainment they are bountiful
enough, yea, far exceed us. As for the poor peasant, he is fain
oftentimes to make up his meal with a mushroom or his grenouilles (in
English, frogs), the which are in Paris and many other places
commonly sold in the market.'
Cairistiona
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