The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-05
Pies.

The pie is almost an " institution" " in
America. A single New York bakery
claims that it produces nine hundred
pies an hour from one of its ten capa-
cious ovens, and total of fifty thou
sand pies daily, the year round, forcing
the supply occasionally up to sixty-five
thousand-probably on Fourth of July,
or other festal occasions. Let the read
er busy himself with imagining the to-
trl production of pies by this and all
other bakeries of the country during a
twelve-mOnth Never theless, these ia
cilities would be inadequate to the pop
ular demand, were the majority of our
countrymen of stomach as unbounded
as that of the Dundee Iaborer, whom a
Scotch journal commentaries. This
| extraordinary person, having not long
since eaten nine large two-penny pies
at a Dundee pie-shop within fourteen
and a half minutes announced his pur-
pose to eat, on the following Monday,
twelve pies within twenty-five minutes !;
and, in fact, when the delicacies were
put before him in the shape of a six
pound pile, fourteen inches high, he
! consumed half dozen in five minutes,
the next three at the end of eleven
minutes, and the last three in six min
utes more, having ended his repast
eight minutes sooner than he designed
possibly owing to the pangs of hung
eT, since he expressed a willingness to
occupy the spare moments with devour-
ing another half dozen pies.
With this item of news in fresh re-
membrance, we CHARGED to read in a
very old English newspaper the supper
eaten many years ago, by Mr.. Oakley,
of Stanton, Derbyshire- repast which
makes the Scotchman's Just recorded
rather frugal by comparison. His first
dish, says the report, was two quarts of
milk, thirty eggs, half pound of but
ter, half a pound Of sugar, thres penny
loaves, a quantity of ginger and nut
meg, and an ounce of mustard, all boil
/ ed together; his second course was % a
piece of cheese and a pound of bread
to it :" the third was half pound of
bacon, a penny loaf and a quart of ale.
| followed by three haf-pennies' worth of
| gingerbread and a pint of ale his
/ fourth dish was a custard of two pound,
an ounce of mustard, some black pep
per, a pint of milk and three pints OF
ale to It. THIS banquet he finished in
an hour, and then ungratefully com
planned of not having had enough so,
after running three hundred yards by
way Of an appetizer, he sat down with
the rest of the company, who had wit
messed his prowess, and drank pretty
freely. Yet even this exploit is hardly
equal to the marvel IN digestion report
ed in the same ancient newspaper Of O
Truro porter, who, for a bet of five shil.
lings, ate two pairs of worsted stockings
fried IN train oil, half pound ef yellow
soap into the bargain. The losers of this
wager might have been more cautious
had they known that the same atrocious
gIutton once undertook to eat as muel
tripe as would make himself a JACKIE
with sleeves, and was accordingly mea
sured by a tailor, who regularly cut on
the materials, when, to general surprise
the voracious fellow ate mp the whole IL
twenty minutes. Compared with thes'
performances, some Of the current prod
! igies of gormandism which the paper
so often report are surely As trihing il
amount as they are tame and uninven
tive IN the character of their details-
! / LfpBiRcotts Magazine.