"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
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Source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.257
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