| A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl. |
| So decadent, in fact, that they now have nothing to defend and will sell their souls and anything else, even their votes, for a mess of pottage. |
| I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage. |
| Every day, the pupils would have milk or milk pottage for breakfast, a vegetable-based dinner at midday, and broth with a piece of bread for supper. |
| Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory hole. |
| So, Horace's simple dish would have been a vegetable stew or pottage, and it is most likely that the lagani added to it were small squares or strips of fried dough. |
