ASmith1946 wrote:

>>Still, "candy is dandy, but
>>liquor is quicker."
>
> Always loved Ogden Nash. How about:
>
> Celery, raw
> Develops the jaw,
> But celery, stewed,
> Is more quietly chewed.
>
> Ogden Nash
> Reflection on Ice-Breaking

Just returned "Food" by Ogden Nash to my library. Some very funny,
extremely witty stuff in there. A thin volume, but well worth the read.

Food has had a very long history in poetry, going back to the
ancients. There's actually a good bit of contemporary food poetry out
there ranging from juvenile through young adult and on up to serious
adult works. Also food poems as sings. Googling turns up huge numbers
of all of them.

In colonial America and England before that, popular recipes appeared
as poems, presumably to make remembering them easier.

Pastorio