Lee Rudolph wrote:
>
> 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

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