I was sharing a flat in Greenside Court with
I was reading some Miss Marple short stories last night. In one of them - The Herb of Death - Mrs Bantry says: "...don't use the word flesh. Vegetarians always do. They say, 'I never eat flesh' in a way that puts you right off your nice little beefsteak. Mr Curle was a vegetarian. He used to eat some peculiar stuff that looked like bran for breakfast. Those elderly stooping men with beards are often faddy. They have patent kinds of underwear, too."