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> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:37:47 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
> > wrote:
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> >In article >, Olivers
> > wrote:
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> >> Lazarus Cooke muttered....
> >>
> >> Why would you disbelieve repeated and quite reasonbale anecdotes of
groups
> >> forced to dine repeatedly on foods unfamiliar to their childhood and
> >> previous experiences and objecting to same?
> >
> >I don't necessarily disbelieve them. I just become suspicious when the
> >same tale (which has a moral attached) pops up all over the place, and
> >yet I haven't seen a primary source.
> >
> Pops up all over the place? In northern colonies of a country that has
> never been big on cooking prowess or known for lavishing unnecessary
> expense on apprentices or indentured servants?

Sorry, but yes, it seems to pop up all over the place, I even heard that
the carpenter's apprentices on the Loire river had stated in their contract
of apprenticeship that they should eat salmon no more than thrice a week.
Once again no primary source offered, neither did I search for one, salmon
being (documentedly) a most common fish in Loire river (among others)
before the second half of twentieth century, it was plausible enough for
me, even if not (by a stretch) for an historian.

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