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This looks pretty much like a conflation of the type already mentioned in comments:
Are you, perhaps, thinking of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, where he described oats as: "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"?
(––@sempaiscuba)
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