“Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it. … Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness… The only food at the Hotel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's.”

— George Orwell, book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 14

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