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    From Alexander Koryagin@2:221/360 to All on Thu Apr 17 15:39:30 2025


    Hi, All!

    From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome

    -----Beginning of the citation-----
    We did our marketing after breakfast, and revictualled the boat for
    three days. George said we ought to take vegetables - that it was
    unhealthy not to eat vegetables. He said they were easy enough to cook,
    and that he would see to that; so we got ten pounds of potatoes, a
    bushel of peas, and a few cabbages. We got a beefsteak pie, a couple of gooseberry tarts, and a leg of mutton from the hotel; and fruit, and
    cakes, and bread and butter, and jam, and bacon and eggs, and other
    things we foraged round about the town for.
    ----- The end of the citation -----

    I accept ten pounds of potatoes, few cabbages etc. But tell me please - what does mean a bushel of peas? AFAIR, a bushel is a volume about 40 litres, in other words it is 4 big water pails for fire fighting. And it was as they said for 3 days.
    :-)

    Bye, All!
    Alexander Koryagin

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to ALEXANDER KORYAGIN on Thu Apr 17 08:37:00 2025
    I accept ten pounds of potatoes, few cabbages etc. But tell me please - what does mean a bushel of peas? AFAIR, a bushel is a volume about 40 litres, in other words it is 4 big water pails for fire fighting. And it was as they said
    for 3 days.
    :-)

    Yes, close to 40 litres, which is correct, sounds like a lot for 3 days!

    One other definition of a bushel would be a container that is large enough
    to contain a bushel. If the writer meant the container, it is possible
    that it was not full.

    Since the writer didn't specifiy, who knows? Maybe they really liked peas!
    :D

    Mike


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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to Alexander Koryagin on Thu Apr 17 16:48:08 2025
    Hi, Alexander -- on Apr 17 2025 at 15:39, you wrote:

    From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome

    I accept ten pounds of potatoes, few cabbages etc. But tell me
    please - what does mean a bushel of peas? AFAIR, a bushel is a
    volume about 40 litres, in other words it is 4 big water pails for
    fire fighting. And it was as they said for 3 days.
    :-)

    For that matter, 10 pounds of potatoes is a tad excessive for 3 days! And, how are they going to cook this stuff in a small (row?) boat?

    The whole thing, imo, is a gross exaggeration to add to the humour of the event. Don't take it seriously.

    Cheers... Dallas

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