J. R. R. Tolkien Quote

If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1966)