Nick is quite right -
I expect others will come up with this before me, but in the Everyman
Dictionary of quotations and proverbs, has that quotation and it is listed
as a proverb - (17th Century) the year is supposed to be 1520 and a
pickerel =young pike).
Eunice in Queensland
>This reminds me of a Rhyme, the source of which I cannot now trace, and
>which I have seen in various forms -
>
>Turkey, carp, hops, pickerel and beer
>Came into England all in one year.
>
>The year in question being, to my recollection, about 1520. I am relying
>entirely on memory here
>
>Nick Hudd
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