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Over 4,600 Quotes About Food, Beverages, Agriculture and the Pleasures of the Table
Oats: "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English writer, lexicographer.
‘Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary’ (1755)
“Once we sowed wild oats, now we cook them in the microwave.”
anonymous
“The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.”
Waverley Root, 'Food' (1980)
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