George Orwell Quote

Looking round that filthy room, with raw meat lying among the refuse on the floor, and cold, clotted saucepans sprawling everywhere, and the sink blocked and coated with grease, I used to wonder whether there could be a restaurant in the world as bad as ours. But the other three all said they had been in dirtier places.

Ch. 21; on the state of the kitchen at the newly opened Auberge. - Down and out in Paris and London (1933)