Marmalade appears alongside newspapers on breakfast tables in novels, paintings, and real life, giving rise to the marvellous phrase "marmalade dropper" to describe a shocking piece of news or gossip. In Agatha Christie's A Pocketful of Rye (1953) the marmalade itself provides the sensation when the murderer's first victim eats some with poison in it. This is The Breakfast Table (c1918, Aberdeen Archives) by Roger Fry (1866-1934) and this, too, tells its own story.