fruit-consumers

Updated: January 20, 2026

Fruit can hardly be looked on as a food; it is merely an ornamental accessory to it, in our opinion. We are great fruit-consumers, but we look on such trifles as only refreshers for odd moments, and not as having anything to do with the serious business of eating.

William Delisle Hay - Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2): or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand