So scarce was meat at the end of the American Civil War that even men like Robert Lee, formerly commander in chief of the Confederate army, lived chiefly on boiled cabbage.

• 美国南北战争结束时，肉类非常缺乏，连前南军统帅罗勃特．李这样的人物，吃的也主要是煮熟的包心菜。