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I could have cooked at home expression or saying

Rebuke for anyone who chooses the same dish as someone else at the table when eating out

Origin

From an occasion – possibly at Meridiana, Horsley – when several young Iliffs took a fancy to the same main course

Collector

Mum – 1970s?
Pauline Iliff (Dixon) – mother of Mark, JM, G & Bel

Notes

Iliffs still feel under pressure to order differently from everyone else at the table

Submitted: 30/11/2023 by Mark

any thoughts?





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