pittatis

Updated: July 14, 2026

When this thoroughly low-bred Irishism came out I could not help smiling, and caught at the same moment the eye of a lady opposite, who seemed greatly amused. In a few minutes after, she said, evidently for the purpose of having another trial of the Anglo-Irishman, "Pray, may I help you to a potato?" the killing reply was, "Pon my hona' I neva' ate pittatis at all at all."

Jasper W. Rogers - Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England!: As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration