Food Forethought

FOOD FORETHOUGHT

Beans and rice is very nice But meat and spuds is better Posh folk feast on salmon, smoked Or prepared with herbs and butter

When sheckels are few a pot of stew With offal, bones and dripping Will fill the guts in hovels and huts Of those eking out a living

The jet set munches on lobster lunches Fine wine and exotic cocktails All kinds of fishes and gourmet dishes Partridge, pheasant and quails

Children’s bellies get filled with jellies And sweets, iced-lollies and soda Bad habits that stay all through our days Till our teeth fall out when we’re older

We fry and grill what others kill Boil and roast fresh veggies Picked by the hands that work the land Its trees and fields and hedges

The teas and rice and sugars and spice That make it to our table Sown and grown by people unknown Who eat whatever is available

Does how we dine really define us? Now there’s some food for thought To have good taste and leave less waste Are the things we should be taught