shudderous

Updated: May 2, 2025

Seas of thin soup invariably preceded a dish of shapeless masses of "soup-meat," garnished with boiled peas. The third course consisted of chicken or partridge: on less happy occasions foreign and "shudderous" dishes appeared; a peculiar jelly shell-fish was the lowest ebb that and pork we resented. Then a long pause.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock