The Hobbit ​by J.R.R. Tolkien

On food: “We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”

A toast: “may the hair on his toes never fall out! all praise to his wine and ale!—”

Food served on: 
  • Sticks (meat)
  • Wooden drinking-bowls (mead)
  • Red earthenware pots (honey)

Drinks served in:
  • ​Leather bottles (wine)
In alphabetical order:
  • Ale
  • Apple tart
  • Apples
  • Bacon
  • Bannocks
  • Beer
  • Biscuit
  • Blackberries
  • Bread (‘with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream’)
  • Bread and cheese
  • Buttered scones
  • Cheese
  • Coffee
  • Cold chicken
  • Cram (‘biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise’)
  • Cream and honey
  • Dried fruit
  • Eggs
  • Eggs (fried not poached) with ham
  • Faggots
  • Flour
  • Marjoram
  • Mince-pies
  • Mutton (cooked on long spits) with gravy
  • Nuts
  • Pickles
  • Pie
  • Pork-pie and salad
  • Porter
  • Rabbits, hares, and a small sheep (for roasting on a fire)
  • Raspberry jam
  • Red wine
  • Sage
  • Seed-cake
  • Sorrel
  • Strawberries (wild)
  • Tea
  • Thyme
  • Twice-baked cakes (‘honey was in them’)
  • Water from a mountain stream
In order of appearance:
  • Beer
  • Seed-cake
  • Ale
  • Porter
  • Coffee
  • Buttered scones
  • Tea
  • Red wine
  • Raspberry jam
  • Apple tart
  • Mince-pies
  • Cheese
  • Pork-pie and salad
  • Eggs
  • Cold chicken
  • Pickles
  • Biscuit
  • Eggs (fried not poached) with ham
  • Mutton (cooked on long spits) with gravy
  • Bread and cheese
  • Bacon
  • Faggots
  • Bannocks
  • Blackberries
  • Sorrel
  • Water from a mountain stream
  • Strawberries (wild)
  • Thyme
  • Sage
  • Marjoram
  • Rabbits, hares, and a small sheep (for roasting on a fire)
  • Cream and honey
  • Bread (‘with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream’)
  • Nuts
  • Flour
  • Dried fruit
  • Twice-baked cakes (‘honey was in them’)
  • Pie
  • Apples
  • Cram (‘biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise’)