vacunal

Updated: July 1, 2026

Yet I have sat down opposite a man who gave the government at the door a work-coupon identical with mine, but who furthermore dropped into the waiter's hand "35 cents spig" which is half as bad as to do it in U.S. currency and while I was gazing tearfully at a misshapen lump of vacunal gristle there was set before him, steaming hot from the government kitchen, a porterhouse steak which a dollar bill would not have brought him within scenting distance of in New York.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers