Eat a peach

Does anyone know if the phrase "to eat a peach" has any secundary meaning ?
Thanks a lot
Lesley

In some contexts, it's an allusion to a line in "The Waste Land," by T. S. Eliot. That may or may not fit the setting where you found it.

Indeed it may be in "The Waste Land" but it is more famously in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and is part of an expression of the angst of middle age insecurity "I grow old...I grow old... I shall wear the bottms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? I dare to eat a peach?...."

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