p-o-r-r-i-d-g-e

Updated: May 25, 2025

Our speedometer now shows more than seven hundred and we've another day to go at least one hundred and thirty miles. And we haven't even had a tire accident. We're having a delightful journey only this country yields neither vegetables nor fruits, and I have to live on oatmeal. They spell it p-o-r-r-i-d-g-e, and they call it puruge. But they beat all creation as carnivorous folk.

Burton Jesse Hendrick - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I