Name That List, #27

What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.
  • 2 cigar ends
  • 9 cigarette ditto
  • a portion of pork pie
  • 4 toothpicks
  • 2 hairpins
  • 1 stem of a clay pipe
  • 3 fragments of orange peel
  • 1 slice of cat’s meat
  • half a sole of a boot
  • 1 plug of tobacco (chewed)
  • straw
  • mud
  • scraps of paper
  • miscellaneous street refuse






Answer:

They're the results of an experiment conducted by Lady Harberton during the 1890s. Appalled at the filth of the city of London, she "itemised the ejecta recovered from the train of a woman’s dress after a short stroll along Piccadilly."

Source: theguardian.com, Dirty Old London.
     Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 16, 2015
     Category: Name That List





Comments
I had the street in mind but couldn't figure what critter living there scarfed all this stuff down.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/16/15 at 12:12 PM
Ole-What's'er-Name (house maid, cook) has crossed off this destination for when we can time travel.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/16/15 at 12:14 PM
I recall that, fairly early in the twentieth century, a public-health advocate praised the fact that women were now wearing shorter skirts that no longer would sweep such detritus into their homes. He was particularly concerned about the dried, powdery horse dung that was everywhere back in those days.
Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 02/16/15 at 01:29 PM
A slice of cat meat?
Posted by KDP on 02/16/15 at 02:07 PM
"A slice of cat meat? "

It was in the 'pork pie'.
(What? Pork is expensive, and the alley's full of cats!)
Posted by Captain DaFt on 02/16/15 at 05:20 PM
GROSS!!! I was going to say it was stuff caught up in a street sweeper, close enough.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/16/15 at 11:21 PM
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