"He's got a Piece of Bread and Cheese in his Head" = "He's drunk"?

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>What might be the origin of "He's got a Piece of Bread and Cheese in his
>Head", meaning "he's drunk"?

First one might like to establish that the expression exists or existed at all.

I do see on the Web a quotation from a Pittsburgh newspaper from 1910
stating that this expression was used by "Italians", but in isolation this
assertion could easily be erroneous, deliberately false, or only marginally
true (e.g., the expression could be a casual translation [accurate or not]
of something in Italian which was seldom or never really used in English).

Is there an example of the above expression actually used to mean "he's
drunk" in any printed work?

-- Doug Wilson