The Devil's Dictionary: Wheat

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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WHEAT

-n.

A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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