Adrian Lopez

“The coffee has a damned odd taste.’

‘This I attribute to the excrement of rats. Rats have eaten our entire stock; and I take the present brew to be a mixture of the scrapings at the bottom of the sack.’

‘I thought it had a familiar tang,’ said Jack.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command

“His interest in food, however, was as eager as Jack’s, in spite of his age; and after a while he said in a voice of real authority, ‘The French may say what they please, and Apicius, with his slave-fed moray eels, was no doubt very well; but it seems to me that civilization reaches its very height in the glistening, gently mottled form of just such a pudding as this, bedewed with its unctuous sauce.’

‘How wholly I agree with you, sir,’ cried Jack. ‘Allow me to cut you a slice from the translucent starboard end.’

‘Well, if I must, I must,’ said Mr Wright, eagerly advancing his plate.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“It is the pity of the world, Dr McAdam, to see a man of your parts obnubilate his mind with the juice of the grape.’

McAdam instantly collected his faculties and replied, ‘It is the pity of the world, Dr Maturin, to see a man of your parts obnubilate his mind with the juice of the poppy.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command