Citations:finocho


 * 1896, Good Health (Good Health Pub. Co.), volume 33, page 535
 * “Pan e finocho me bastan,” say the Sicilian farmers — “give me bread and fennel and keep your made dishes,” but Spanish exiles, like the children of Israel, never cease to hanker after the flesh-pots of their forefathers, and only where the very best sea-fish are cheap and abundant, Spanish army-officers venture to abolish altogether the rations of commissary salt beef.
 * 1902, Agrippa Nelson Bell [ed.], The Sanitarian (Medico-Legal Society, New York), volume 48, page 401
 * “Pan e finocho me bastan,” is a Calabrian phrase of the Never-Say-Die category; “I’ll get along as long as I have ———” What? Pan is bread; but finocho? No North American with an orthodox belief in three daily square meals would guess. Bacon? Cheese? Or, anyhow, something like syrup or honey? No, signor; fennel, Fennel-leaves and bread, solving the problem of existence to a man’s satisfaction.