rancidness

Updated: June 18, 2025

This native product seems to be valued by the people here in proportion as it is rancid, being regarded by them with more than affection when it has reached a degree of rancidness and odoriferousness that would drive a European barring perhaps, a Limburger out of the house.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran