One man's meate is another man's poyson 1618

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:21 PM -0700 5/20/05, James Smith wrote:
>Sorry that I can't recall the story, put the punch
>line is "One man's Meade is another man's Persian."
>Sound familiar to any of you?
>
"One man's Mede is another man's Persian"
225 google hits, with various attributions to, inter al., S.J.
Perelman (possible), George S. Kaufman (unlikely--he usually
malapropped rather than bon mot'd, didn't he?)

There's also "One man's meat is another man's poisson", and other
variants.  I do like the Mede/Persian one, myself.

Larry