Soya and Cucumbers Everyone at the moment is interested in
foods. (Did not a fam newspaper proprietor lay it down that food, money and women were three most popular themes?) One correspondent complains of Government's attitude towards the cucumber, a vegetable, he all that has nine distinct virtues, all duly tabulated. They reminded me Cowper's panegyric on this cool vegetable in " The Task," a poem wh high virtues, and on occasion its almost Shakespearean language, have submerged by a few such domestic lapses. " Who loves a garden lo a greenhouse, too," is not immortal poetry. The truth about the cucum (which is excellent cooked as well as raw) is that it consists chiefly water, and imposes, like the soya bean, certain tasks on the digesti such as that most humorously described in The Ingoldsby Legends. Government's preference for the tomato is well justified.
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