callipash
Britishnoun
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Like noisome soup appeared to gush The sizy torrent, now set free; And in the mess lurched figures bloated, With fat heads, whose dull eyes still gloated On morsels that around them floated Of callipash and callipee.
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The Curfew tolls the knell of those whose day Is done—those greedy "creatures on our lee"— Woe to the burly phalanx so au fait At hiding callipash and callipee.
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As might be expected in such circumstances, a potato is a far more precious thing than a turtle's egg, and a sack of the tubers would probably be deemed a sufficient remuneration for enough of the materials of callipash and callipee to feed all the aldermen extant.
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Nothing is more difficult of digestion, or oftener requires the aid of peristaltic persuaders, than the glutinous callipash which is considered the “bonne bouche” of this soup.
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When the callipee and the callipash are perfectly separated, take out that part of the gut that leads from the throat; that with the hearts put into a basin of water by themselves, the other interior part put away.
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