All Displays of Violence Are in Very Bad Taste ~1856

Victorian man and woman carving turkey

 

Carving presents no difficulties… All displays of exertion or violence are in very bad taste.

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Source: Practical American Cookery and Domestic Economy, E. Hall. (1856).

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