These bear a suspicious resemblance to lines by the American J. K. Paulding in his poem The Backwoodsman (1818): 'Whate'er may happen, wheresoe'er we roam, However homely, still there is naught like home'. (Here 'homely' means 'simple'.)There is no such thing as a free lunch Around about the 1840s, American bars began advertising 'free lunches' when you bought a drink.