After bearing witness to some of the most sickening atrocities in human history, it only reminded Martha Gellhorn why her job to expose the truth truly was so important.
So it's the same old food, like disgusting minced beef, which was mixed with peas. And, we always used to have a chicken on a Sunday. We never really had anything else.
Then his voice became thin and dim and his face above her swirled in a sickening mist which became heavier and heavier until she no longer saw him — or anything else.
In the early 20th century, it was a byword for cheap and sickening fakery, as opposed to the all-natural properties of sugar, which was not yet seen as a problematic food.