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“We’ve all had beestings before. It’s okay.”

In Britain, dairy farmers refer to it as beestings: traditionally, mother cows would be milked after feeding their newborn calves and any surplus colostrum was used to make an extra-creamy, and very healthy, pudding.

Get some small cuttle-fish, or squids, some nestis, Some small fry of the polypus, some tripe, And beestings and black-puddings; get besides A noble head of the Milesian pike.

There too were cakes of groats well steep'd in milk, In large flat dishes, and rich plates of beestings.

Vicente was the kind of boy who would challenge his friends to see who could withstand the most beestings--and win.