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Post by deuce on Dec 29, 2017 14:21:00 GMT -5
"Damn these Mexican foods — a few more meals of tortillas, toasted tacos, chili and tamales and I’ll declare another international war."
-- Robert E. Howard to Harold Preece, c.1928
For those who might wonder, REH quite liked Mexican cuisine. It did, however, "play hell" with his digestion, as he put it.
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Post by deuce on Mar 24, 2018 16:11:49 GMT -5
From One Who Walked Alone by Novalyne Price Ellis:
REH said: "[M]en made a terrible mistake when they called their best girls their rose or violet or names like that, because a man ought to call his girl something that was near his heart. What, he asked, was nearer a man’s heart than his stomach? Therefore he considered it to be an indication of his deep felt love and esteem to call me his cherished little bunch of onion tops, and judging from past experience, both of us had a highest regard for onions."
In a later letter he wrote:
“My very dear little Bunch of Radishes” or “My very dear Beans, Cornbread and Onions” or “My dear Sausage and Big, Brown Fluffy Biscuits as well as sliced red beets with butter over them.”
All of the foods/dishes listed above would appear to be "near [to REH's] heart." I grew up in a rural area and all of the above were popular with older people from a generation just a few decades later than Bob's.
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Post by deuce on Aug 16, 2018 14:00:25 GMT -5
TOPER
Toil, cares, annoyances all fade away;
I care not who may run for President.
I drowse and swig my rum the live-long day,
And watch the shallops skimming o'er the bay.
~ Robert E. Howard ~REH also used the term "toper" in reference to Conan in QotBC.
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Post by deuce on Sept 7, 2018 1:55:39 GMT -5
"My joy at discovering 6% beer (Coors’ Golden Beer, made in Golden, Colorado) almost caused me to forgive the inordinately high prices of everything and the abominable sales tax levied in New Mexico."
-- REH to HP Lovecraft
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Post by deuce on Nov 26, 2018 13:30:45 GMT -5
"When I get in a sea-port town, I revel in oysters, shrimps, crabs, sea-fish, and the like, to my heart’s content. I find one thing about such food; it doesn’t seem to stay with you and give you any real strength. I eat it in enormous quantities, and then in a few hours I’m ravenously hungry again. Maybe it’s because, like most people in this country, I’m a beef-eater, Indeed, beef in some form or other seems to be the only food that gives me the necessary nutriment."
-- Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft 2 November, 1932
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