If the viand is too hot or too cold, or is not what the visitor likes, he pretends to eat it, playing with knife and fork.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
For when the body waxeth hungry For lack of food, or else thirsty, Then with drinks pleasant I restore him out of pain, And oft refresh nature again With delicate viand.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
Young maids and venerable matrons, gray-bearded fathers, shy, blushing girls, and eager-eyed children, all vied with each other in pressing upon their defenders every delicacy and substantial viand that their town could furnish at the moment.
"His Sombre Rivals"
E. P. Roe