Meat Substitute (1893)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:31:49PM -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> OED has 1931 for "meat substitute."  This is the revised
> OED.  Seemingly everyone should know that "meat substitutes"
> were used during World War I, at least.
>
> There are two earlier BROOKLYN EAGLE hits (1870s and 1880s),
> but the system has been changed a little and I didn't see
> them.

Neither of them is relevant.

Jesse Sheidlower