Lazarus Cooke wrote:

>In article >, ASmith1946
> wrote:
>
>>>
>>>I have not seen it in a primary source. My memory of the account I did
>>>see was that it was a contract in which A was borrowing B's indentured
>>>servants, and agreeing not to feed them lobster more than X days a week.
>>>
>>>--
>
>
>>I've heard a similar story for sturgeon, i.e. loggers signing contracts for
>>eating sturgeon only three days a week. Don't recall seeing a primary source
>>on
>>this story either...
>
>I'm afraid that this exists as a tale in the Uk, too, with both salmon
>and oysters.

I have had a first-person account of not quite the same thing, for salmon.
A mathematical colleague of mine (Stepan Orevkov, now of the Universite
Paul Sabatier) fulfilled part of his military obligations to the
then-USSR as part of a group doing geodetic surveys in the Russian
Far East (I think the Kamchatka Peninsula, but am not sure). He
told me, one evening when we were dining in Toulouse and he had
declined the salmon appetizer at our chosen restaurant, that for
about three months he had eaten (fresh-caught) salmon at every meal,
and thereafter had never yet wanted to eat it again.

Lee Rudolph