Help with the meaning of this sentence????
"He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it."
Peter Pan, page 87.
We did look up stodge but I'm not sure our dictionary gave the full meaning of the word....I'm sort of into words. LOL I want to use this one on Thanksgiving. LOL
Arielle thinks it means that he could only eat heavily if it was maybe a contest, but unlike most kids, he didn't like to pig out just to pig out. The next best thing for most kids would be to talk about food, but the game was what interested him.
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I know it has to do with eating heavily.....and Peter is notorious for at time having them "make believe" they were eating....I think I'll try that around here.
ReplyDeleteStodgey food in England:
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toast (!)
semolina
tapioca
bread pudding
bread and butter
Are you feeling full yet?
100 years ago those were the foods served in the 'nursery'. Children were believed to need a lot of stodge and so their food was stodgey (and bland).
It's no longer used as a verb though and is now just used to describe high-carb foods.
HTH
Dorothy
"he could stodge" - he could eat heavy carb food....but he didn't do it just to feel "stodgey" - just to feel stuffed and heavy and full.
ReplyDeleteThe next sentence goes on to talk about being able to watch Peter plump up as he stodges.....Give me Potatoes, refined white bread and I'm SO there with Peter. ::snort::