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Another Old Testament reference.

Esau sold his status as Abraham’s firstborn son to his brother Jacob (Genesis 25:29–34) for a bowl of stew (pottage). Hence, a mess of pottage is the proverbial price of a birthright. This phrase was parodied by CS Lewis, who accused H. G. Wells of selling his birthright for “a pot of message” (that is, abandoning the purely imaginative books he did so well to push his political ideas).