Food
- Olde Cheshire Cheese, in Fleet Street, London (with many other examples, including at Castleton, City of London and Wheelock).
- Haunch of Venison: e.g., in Salisbury
- Sir Loin of Beef, in Southsea—from a legend that a loin of beef was once knighted, making it a sirloin.
- Shoulder of Mutton: e.g., in Wendover, near Richmond, North Yorkshire and Bournemouth
- Oxnoble near Potato Wharf in Manchester—after a variety of potato.
- Ribs of Beef, Norwich, Norfolk
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“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and nappies.”
—Terence, Sir Conran (b. 1931)
“... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)