1984 vocabulary

He mightn't eat wheaten flour or leavened bread; he mightn't look at or even mention by name such unlucky things as a goat, a dog, raw meat, haricot beans, or common ivy.

Grant Allen. The British Barbarians.

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The stuff they were eating was a thin stew, actually a soup, of haricot beans.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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And to think that we shall have to wait two whole months before we hear: ‘Haricots verts et tendres, haricots, v’la l’haricot vert.’ How true that is: tender haricots; you know I like them as soft as soft, dripping with vinegar sauce, you wouldn’t think you were eating, they melt in the mouth like drops of dew.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]