> That's emazing Gary! I found an almost exactly similar quote in an old
> contract of employment for logging workers here in Finland (about a
> hudread years back). I think it was specified that they wouldn't have =
to
> eat sammon for more than two times a week. :)
I believe that Edinburgh (or Leith, to be more accurate, I think) workers (fishermen or dockers, I assume) used to have similar complaints about being forced to live on a diet of (IIRC) claret, oysters, and salmon...
With poverty like that, who needs wealth?
Sl=E1n,
Alex.
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