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Earlier today my wife and I had an email exchange about supper. I had initially asked her what she wanted, and she replied, "Ummm... chicken?" I needed to know how she wanted it, and before I knew it there was syncopation, so it got into a silly back and forth.

Wolf:
Whole and roasted? Fried in parts?
Soup with noodles? Stuffed with hearts?
Stewed and steamed? Sliced and creamed?
On a pizza? Topped with breem?
Microwaved or in the oven?
Cooked all bare or with a glove in?

Tell me, tell me how you'll eat it, how you'll see it, how you'll greet it.
Tell me, won't you, how you'll task it, on a plate or in a basket.
What's the chicken you desire?
Tell me soon before I tire.

TL:
Whole in oven would be good,
or fried with panko (not with wood).
With some noodles in a soup would make me give a wild whoop.
But one thing I must declare, chicken hearts are not served rare.
And while yon bream can be delish, I fear to eat for it's a fish.

So here and now I tell to you, let's have some soup and roast to chew.

Wolf:
Shall I serve it with potato? Or some vinaigrette tomato?
Will we finish with gelayto while the children play with play-doh?
I think we need some veggies too, to make my wifey feel less blue.
I will make some french fried carrot, ones the kids won't feed the parrot.
Or I can steam some healthy peas and sauce them lightly with some cheese.
Or fry some green beans -- in a pan -- that never once lived in a can.
I cannot, though, make up the challah, so pick some up from Walla Walla.

TL:
Rosenfeld's where challah be, a stylish schlep it is for me.
Carrots good and taters too, and beans are green and cure my blues.

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We did not actually have chicken for supper, but that's a story for another post.

Date: 2012-03-17 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herince-emyn.livejournal.com
You two would fit in nicely with my Dr. Seuss curriculum at school! :P

Date: 2012-03-17 01:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moria923.livejournal.com
That's much what I was going to say: now we know where Dr. Seuss's spirit went when it left his body.

Date: 2012-03-17 02:53 am (UTC)
ext_12246: (Default)
From: [identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com
So Lars did not slay Sven (http://www.oldlutheran.com/page.php?page=humor&id=8)?

Date: 2012-03-17 02:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teddywolf.livejournal.com
I could write Seuss-style stuff all day long if I wanted. I really don't want to do it all day, but the occasional foray is nice.

I want to have some pizza please
I want it topped with extra cheese
And don't forget tomato slices,
spinach leaves and onion dices.
I want a pizza crust that's thin
Like Boston, New York, Ital-yin.
Then spread the sauce out to the edge
And grate some cheese, a whole big wedge.
Now heat your oven made of bricks
With tasty logs and fragrant sticks
And stick the pizza deep inside
So none could steal it if they tried.
When cheese and crust are nice and ready,
Remove the pizza nice and steady.
Then cut it up and serve it hot.
I'll eat it all! or eat a lot.

Date: 2012-03-17 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teddywolf.livejournal.com
Thankfully, we still have a full complement of redheads. Not-so-thankfully, the two smaller ones are currently giving bruises to the larger one.

Date: 2012-03-17 07:45 am (UTC)
deborah_c: (rainbow)
From: [personal profile] deborah_c
I currently have tears of laughter, although it was the last line that had me helplessly doubled up! What a wonderful way to start my morning!

Date: 2012-03-17 11:36 am (UTC)
gingicat: (oops - Agatha Heterodyne)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
I presume you mean the line about not actually eating chicken for supper?

Date: 2012-03-17 12:03 pm (UTC)
deborah_c: (nonsequitur)
From: [personal profile] deborah_c
I did. Which probably tells you far more than you want to know about my sense of humour, of course...

I take it the smaller redheads have now relented?
Edited Date: 2012-03-17 12:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-03-17 12:11 pm (UTC)
gingicat: woman in a green dress and cloak holding a rose, looking up at snow falling down on her (girlochka - mischief)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
Girlochka says to say to the Deborah who played violin in her house she likes your rainbow zebra picture. :)

Date: 2012-03-17 01:31 pm (UTC)
deborah_c: (rainbow)
From: [personal profile] deborah_c
*laughs*

Thank you; I rather like rainbow zebras too (and girlochkas!)

Date: 2012-03-17 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teddywolf.livejournal.com
It was rather British of me, wasn't it? :P

Date: 2012-03-17 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erin-c-1978.livejournal.com
This is made of win. <3

Date: 2012-03-18 07:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Grin. Great fun, thanks for sharing! I used to sweet-talk my pups in Seussian style ...

(So, no chicken? shocking! Were green beans eaten?)

Date: 2012-03-19 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com
just... wow.
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