They universally agreed that there were many other
fruits in the world besides Pine-apple which had been too long
neglected. One dilated on the rich flavour of Melon; another
panegyrised Pumpkin, and offered to make up by quantity for any slight
deficiency in gout; Cherries were not without their advocates;
Strawberries were not forgotten. One maintained that the Fig had been
pointed out for the established fruit of all countries; while another
asked, with a reeling eye, whether they need go far to seek when a God
had condescended to preside over the Grape! In short, there was not a
fruit which flourishes that did not find its votaries. Strange to say,
another foreign product, imported from a neighbouring country famous for
its barrenness, counted the most; and the fruit faction which chiefly
frightened the Vraibleusian Government was an acid set, who crammed
themselves with Crab-apples.
It was this party which first seriously and practically conceived the
idea of utterly abolishing the ancient custom of eating pine-apples.
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