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# John Keats described the pleasure of eating a nectarine on 22 September 1819
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- Published: 2025-05-06T17:33:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:43:54.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Observations, People

On 22 September 1819 the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote in his journal: "Talking of pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my mouth a nectarine — good god how fine! It went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy — all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beautiful strawberry"