pork

But please don’t ask me to eat anything, especially boiled pork and greens.

Boiled pork and greens are so unromantic when one is in affliction.”

“Well now, she shouldn’t have taken the brooch, Marilla, or told stories about it,” he admitted, mournfully surveying his plateful of unromantic pork and greens as if he, like Anne, thought it a food unsuited to crises of feeling, “but she’s such a little thing--such an interesting little thing.