The children are also served a hot tea by talking beavers with "a great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot", and other wholesome foods. Tumnus the faun is a classic middle-class British tea, and the simple fresh eggs, buttered toast and sardines would have been out of reach for Lucy, who escapes to Narnia in the midst of the war. ".the first sense you get in Narnia about Lewis's attitude toward food is an air of profound nostalgia for the lost paradise of a varied, ample diet, and a willingness to wallow in the nostalgia somewhat." James Herbert Brennan has contrasted this scene against the backdrop of food rations during World War II, when the books were written: When Lucy first steps through the wardrobe she is invited to "a wonderful tea" with a faun with "a nice brown egg.sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast with honey, and then a sugar topped-cake". Tea is a prominent feature of Narnia's food landscape. Tummnus and the Beavers, or the meal Lucy eats with Corakin the Magician of "an omelette, piping hot, cold lamb and green peas, a strawberry ice, lemon-squash to drink with the meal and cup of chocolate to follow." Tea The oft-cited example of a "bad magic food" is the enchanted Turkish Delight that Edmund eats with the Witch, while the ordinary foods are the wholesome teas of Mr. Lewis draws contrast between enchanted foods and "ordinary" ones: "There's nothing that spoils the taste of good ordinary food half so much as the memory of bad magic food".
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