Day 7:-a poem based on a news article.
Monsieur, pray
be seated
for the feast may
commence à l’instant
the wine is poured
Here for your dining pleasures
an array of curious pairings
guaranteed to enhance tastes
and delight base yearnings
to this lofty destination
may we make the following suggestions
in no particular order
Malbec goes well with baked beans on toast or marmalade ladies
try it with salted porridge posset or cherry blossom brandies
Riesling goes well with fluffy white rice
Sauvignon Blanc is perfect with delicate spiced mice
a chilled glass of Zinfandel
is the accompaniment, one can tell
for a handful of rocky mountain oysters*
shaken, never stirred
a prairie oyster**, on the other hand
would seem quite bland without the pre-requisite exquisite
packet of Tim-Tams***, slammed+
Cabernet sauvignon is quite a song
when drunk along with faggots or haggis
Pinot Grigio goes a treat sipped with
Jammy Dodgers**** or cheesy maggots++
If you’d care for a nibble of witchetty grubs*****, Monsieur, crispy grasshoppers or such
or a feed of fried spiders or wasp crackers, then please match these, their oily crunch
with an appetizer of Chai Lattes or Mai-Tai’s, well sucked
Perfect appeal, Mint Julep with June bugs on a hot summer’s night
Cold frosted beer with silky whelks and sticky eels, well congealed
is just right
Don’t you think?
Monsieur, are you feeling alright?
You may enquire, what’s the correct drink for stink heads****** and picked eggs?
A violet, violent, crimson rich Syrah with good legs, perhaps
While, à l’instant, Monsieur, we notice your sudden sickly smile
perhaps
you would care for a simple tisane of mint and chamomile?
n.b
*Rocky Mountain Oysters: deep fried, battered bull’s testicles
**Prairie Oysters: raw egg yolk, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar and/or Tabasco, salt and black pepper. Popular cure for a hangover
***Tim-Tams: chocolate covered chocolate covered biscuits from Australia. +Tim-Tim Slam: sucking tea through the filling of the biscuit, before the biscuit dissolves in the hot liquid
**** Jammy Dodgers: Jam filled shortbread biscuits from the UK
***** Witchetty grubs: Native to Australia, large, white wood-eating larvae eaten by Aboriginals
Crispy grasshoppers, deep fried spiders and wasp crackers exist. Asian delicacies
++Maggot Cheese is Sardinian. A sheep’s milk cheese containing live insect larvae. Called Casu Marzu
****** Stink heads: fermented head of king salmon , buried and left underground for weeks. ( omg!)
April 7 2020
btw
Café 7, St. Prex
Switzerland
