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The best Portuguese Renaissance maxim I read last night
"When a poor man eats a chicken, one of the two is sick."
That is from The Culture of the Fork, by Giovanni Rebora.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 10, 2006 at 07:48 AM in Food and Drink | Permalink
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That's also a line from "Fiddler on the Roof."
Posted by: KipEsquire at Nov 10, 2006 8:24:01 AM
I had the same response as KipEsquire. A friend says that she had always known it as a Jewish proverb. Perhaps the Portuguese connection is via Sephardic Jews?
Posted by: Adam at Nov 10, 2006 11:37:34 AM
When a poor man eat with a rich man,the poor is paying or the rich one is in debt to the poor
Posted by: S at Nov 10, 2006 1:55:39 PM
Professor Cowen, I presume you've seen the movie 'Being There'?
Posted by: Martin at Nov 10, 2006 3:53:32 PM
In the original, at least in its Brazilian version, it's:
"Quando pobre come galinha, ou ele tá doente ou a galinha"
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