Talk:Class (Cooper book)

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A fact from Class (Cooper book) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 June 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that marmalade, mashed potato and fish knives were all used in the book Class to identify different British social classes?

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle talk 14:53, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that marmalade, mashed potato and fish knives were all used in the book Class to identify different British social classes? Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CxXnDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT9&dq=%22class%22+jilly+cooper&ots=mssal_fo4g&sig=bM-eDeQYAnmsrSPfAl06DA_9Pm4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22class%22%20jilly%20cooper&f=false - the foods are mentioned at different points in the book, but google books doesn't give page numbers in this case unfortunately
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bechbretha
- Comment: Bechbretha was a multi-article nomination, the specific QPQ for this nomination is Sechtae

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 139 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 12:38, 3 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Note: The article page was moved from Class (book) to Class (Cooper book) after the nomination was made. — ERcheck (talk) 00:54, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lajmmoore: thank you for an interesting and amusing article. The article is new enough and long enough, it is well sourced and Earwig does not show any copyvio problems. I have checked the online references and removed one quote that appeared to be incorrect. The hook is interesting and short enough and well sourced. I found Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain on archive.org and the pages numbers there are 22 for marmalade, 34 for mashed potato and 232 for fish knives. TSventon (talk) 15:56, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much TSventon, and that's such a good reminder about archive.org - I never think to use it for recent books, so this is a great tip. Thanks for adding the page numbers too. :::Lajmmoore (talk) 06:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scoff is not available for borrowing, but I searched for key words and was able to see a few pages. TSventon (talk) 06:30, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]