Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
Source: Third Helpings, Houghton Mifflin 83
-- Calvin Trillin, (Dec 5 1935-____), US journalist, writer; He is well known for his writing in the New Yorker.