Pynchon comments on the English food habits Re: BtZ42 pages 116-121 Surprise!

[Mark Kohut]

[...] a familiar melancholy oozing ever closer.
"English. You are fools".
Against the Day, page 833

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Eileen Pierce <eileenpierce333 at gmail.com>
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> Marmalade Surprises here.  Earlier Brigadier Pudding’s Gourd Surprise.
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> "— yes, there *is* something sadistic about recipes with “Surprise” in
> the title, chap who’s hungry wants to just *eat* you know , not be
> Surprised really, just want to bite into the (sigh) the old potato, and be
> reasonably sure there’s nothing inside byt potato you see, certainly not
> some clever nutmeg “Surprise!”, some mashed pulp all magenta with
> pomegranates or something . . . well but this is just the doubtful sort of
> joke that Brigadier Pudding loves to play"
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