gauffre

Updated: August 1, 2026

I immediately seized a mouthful of the food. It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable. I took two other mouthfuls. "I wanted foo'!" said I, tearing off a still larger piece.... For a time we ate with an utter absence of self-consciousness.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The First Men in the Moon