"'I looked at it, sniffed it. It was pretty pungent and smelled like rotten potatoes... Get me some Worcestershire sauce, some tomato juice, and lemon; that oughta kill the smell'"
I dunno, that passage is such an embellishment it makes me think the whole thing was made up.
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