Evening star., 1943-02-27
McLemore
London Breakfast
Leaves Him Bottled
Bv HENRY McLEMORE.

BY HENRY McLEMORE.
LONDON.-No American will ever
forget his first wartime breakfast in
London. Before he has half finished
with it, he knows that 1t will for
ever mark a milestone In his hfe
and share equal honors with other
milestones such as his birth, his first
pair Of long trousers, his first date
with a girl, his first cigar and the
first letter he received that was
addressed Mr.. and not Master.
know because have Just had
my first breakfast in wartime Lon
don. The first mouthful Of powdered
eggs and ersatz sausage had no
sooner assaulted and battered my
unsuspecting taste buds than I
experienced sensation which. while
if not as pleasant, was just as vivid
as that felt by Keats on fiji = look
ing into Chapman's Homer or BY
Columbus when he sighted land, or
by that nameless immortal who
first saw Dorothy Lamour In q
sarong.
There is no describing the taste
| because 1t Is out Of another and
strange world The chances are
| that not even Buck Rogers or Flash
Gordon, with all their experience
with Mars and the neighboring
planets, would be able adequately
to paint a word picture OF London
breakfast.
Even English Are Baffled.
The sausage, I understand, has
even the English themselves bafiled.
| Talking to them, I have learned
that there is vast underground
movement in which nearly all
Englishmen are engaged to de.
termine the composition Of the ra--
toned sausage. Whenever they
have any spare time scientists, =.
housewives, soldiers, everybody works,
on the mystery. D..
No one has even come close to-
solving the problem as yet. Some say.
that it's chief ingredient is composed
of carriages of German planes shot
down over London but those who
have tasted pure airplane carriage
argue that this couldn't be true; that
airplane carriage taken straight has
a much meatier flavor than the sau--
sages.
Others in describing the bread In
London say there are three kinds:
Brown bread, potato bread and sau-
sage. This isn't of much help be-,
cause while the sausage doesn't taste
like sausage, 1t does resemble sau-s
sage. When 1t is served, you think
you have sausage. It wears that
lovely little outer kimono that sau-.
sages all over the world affect and
it has the standard shape. It is be-
lieved in many quarters that the
final touches to the sausage are put
on either by makeup experts from
the English movie studios or by the
ca nouflage engineers Of the Royal
Army.
It is not until you take bite Of it
and have 1t disappear exactly as II
you had eaten a soap bubble that
you know it is no relation either by
blood or marriage to the sweet, firm,
kspicy, juicy, rneat-laden sausage that
decorates the butcher shops at home.
Libel to Hens.
As for powdered eggs, the best
to be said about them is that the
chickens of the world are missing q
great opportunity to get rich by not
suing for libel. You can take all
the powdered eggs in England and
put them on a poultry farm without
ever having hen so much as nod
to them In recognition. This
wouldn't be because the hens were
snooty or upstage. but simply be-
cause hen would see no earthly
connection between the powdered
eggs and the, ones she supplies with
such a gay cackle and ruffling Of
feathers
The English people, as we'll as
Americans who have been in Eng
land for quite while, say that in
time one cultivates a taste for the
powdered eggs and sausage and that
they are very healthful and provide
the standard number of sinews and
corpuscles. Maybe so, but what
happens to a fellow while he Is
cultivating the taste?
came over here as delightful a
little bit of roly poly blubber as you
ever saw, but already I am taking
on the gaunt lines of face and figure
that characterized Abraham Lin
coin. Two more weeks and I'll be
reciting the Gettysburg address in
my sleep and debating military
orders to Grant.
| What wouldn't give for that
American ration card of mine right
now! You know what I'd do with
it? I'd eat it. Ragout of ration
card would taste mighty nice.
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