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aspic
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tags: [food]
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Definition:1. a food dish with the ingredients suspended in gelatin2. [obsolete] an asp, viz. the small venomous Egyptian snake
photo: By Gmelfi, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10146807
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One friend of mine, I know, has made a prodigious sensation in good society, by announcing apropos of certain dishes when offered to him, that he never eats aspic except at Lord Tittup's, and that Lady Jimmy's CHEF is the only man in London who knows how to dress—FILET EN SERPENTEAU—or SUPREME DE VOLAILLE AUX TRUFFES.
William Thackeray. The Book of Snobs.
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Anthony Bourdain: I am above all things a man of the people, a regular Joe, a man as moved by a simple slab of mom's meatloaf as I am of larks' tongues in aspic stuffed with truffles and moistened with the tears of baby unicorns.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, season 11: Newfoundland (May 13, 2018)
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This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.
Shakespeare. Anthony and Cleopatra
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