One of the blogs that I follow more-or-less regularly is the prolific Epi-log over at the the foodie site, Epicurious. Often, I find interesting tidbits of info about cooking or dining, less often something useful about drink, and at least on occasion a post that’s simply downright entertaining.
This post is inspired by an Epi-log entry that definitely falls into that last category.
If you follow the above link, you’ll be directed to a segment from an old episode of The Electric Company, featuring Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman. It’s a wonderful, food-based riff on the kind of sing-song rhyming that kids, and at least this adult, simply love.
In fact, I enjoyed the whole thing that I sat down this morning and wrote out my own little ditty. I don’t claim to be a rhyming writer on a par with those who penned Moreno’s words, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.
Would you like a beer? We’ve got fruit beer Or a root beer House of ill repute beer Spill it on your suit beer Pint of bamboo shoot beer Shot of Absolut beer I can do a licorice root beer Or a rubber boot beer Bet you don’t want Beirut beer But try this new jute beer! How’s that? You want some near beer? Won’t get it here, dear! We only serve real beer Honest and sincere beer No black marketeer beer Or that St. Cyr or Zaire beer We have some austere beer And even a frontier beer But don’t you ever fear, dear I won’t serve you any near beer So what do we have?Why, we’ve got dark beer
A bottle of birch bark beer Ice cold trailer park beer Candy flavoured amusement park beer We used to stock Deutsche mark beer But now there’s only ballpark beer I think I’ve a land shark beer and probably industrial park beer Draught Noah’s ark beer And some “just for a lark” beer. Something lighter, you say? I’ve got some wheat beer Can’t be beat beer Make you lose your seat beer Some pretty damn sweet beer Rich enough to eat beer Or a quenching petite beer Fermented with beet beer Tasting of peat beer man in the street beer And even…sausage meat beer! So, what’ll it be?
