The Second Man
I hear the meals on those English ships are nothing to what they used to be.
The First Man
That’s what everybody tells me. But, as for me, I can’t say I found them so bad. I had to send back the potatoes twice and the breakfast bacon once, but they had very good lima beans.
The Second Man
Isn’t that English bacon awful stuff to get down?
The First Man
It certainly is: all meat and gristle. I wonder what an Englishman would say if you put him next to a plate of genuine, crisp, American bacon.
The Second Man
I guess he would yell for the police—or choke to death.