“According to Boris the same kind of thing went on in all Paris hotels, or at least in all the big, expensive ones. But I imagine that the customers in Hôtel X were especially easy to swindle for they were mostly Americans, with a sprinkling of English-no French- and seemed to know nothing whatever about good food. They would stuff themselves with disgusting American ‘cereals’ and eat marmalade at tea, and drink vermouth after dinner, and order a poulet à la reine at a hundred francs then souse it in Worcester sauce. One customer, from Pittsburgh, dined every night in his bedroom on grape-nuts, scrambled eggs and cocoa. Perhaps it hardly matters whether such people are swindled or not.”
George Orwell, “Down and Out in Paris and London”, 1933.
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