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Lol! "First stated by Henry IV of France as, "I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday," and later associated with Herbert Hoover's 1928 campaign as part of an ad placed by a local committee...The phrase is often attributed to Hoover, although he never made such a statement." (wiktionary.org)
Lol! "First stated by Henry IV of France as, "I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday," and later associated with Herbert Hoover's 1928 campaign as part of an ad placed by a local committee...The phrase is often attributed to Hoover, although he never made such a statement." (Wiktionary.org)
This reminds me of the Rule of St Benedict. Benedict prohibited his monks from eating "the flesh of quadrupeds," which was the food of the rich. But he allowed his monks to eat poultry, the meat of the common people.