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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
Bushy Park
Now this is manly, and so is the diet it advises; I recommend both to my readers. Let each determine to make one convert, himself that one. On Christmas day, let each dine off, or at least have on his table, the good old English fare, roast beef and plum-pudding! and does such beef as our island produces need recommendation? What more nutritive and delicious? and, for a genuine healthy Englishman, what more proper than this good old national English dish? Let him whose stomach will not bear it, look about and insure his lifeI would not give much for it. It ought, above all other places, to be duly honoured in our officers' mess-rooms. As Prior says,