The House of Substance: Diet

Saturday, August 8, 2009

You'll rarely find
A barracuda
Snacking on
A baga, ruta-.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...: We used to joke about being the Rutabaga patrol back when I was a Boy Scout.

(Actually, we were the Fox patrol.)
~; August 8, 2009 at 8:08 AM
mikey said...: Please don't call me Ruta.

As I am not a victim of inest; August 8, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Another Kiwi said...: It's hard to find a fish
that has the will
to name a favoured dish
some are fond of Dill; August 9, 2009 at 5:56 PM
herr doktor bimler said...: For some reason Rutabagas are known in NZ as "Swedes", which is odd, because they taste completely different.
When I first encountered the word (in a Keith Laumer story, if memory serves, as a description of some alien or another) it sounded wonderfully exotic.; August 10, 2009 at 5:43 AM
mikey said...: Oh, man. 40 years ago I LOVED "A Plague of Demons".

I recently found it digitized on the web and found it utterly unreadable.

'Tis a pity.

But yemboen; August 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM