With many living in lodging-houses without access to a stove or even a cooking fire, the late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food ready-made. Some ate in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, but the journalist Henry Mayhew, writing around 1850, observed that ‘men and women, and most especially boys, purchase their meals day after day in the streets.’
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