“Their chief food was roasted bread-fruit, yams, coconuts, baked pig, mammee-apples, tappa rolls and bananas, washed down with calabashes of poe-poe; but you never exactly knew whether there would be a real meal or just a make-believe, it all depended upon Peter’s whim.”
| chocolate pudding | chocolate |
| Christmas puddings | tea |
| milk | beef tea (meat juice diluted with water). |
‘a large rick cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar in it.’