SC - Painful food related item

[Vincent Cuenca]

I feel I must apologize in advance for this, but I just couldn't help 
myself...

Lutefisk and Yams
>by Ulf Gunnarsson
>with apologies to Theodore Geisel
>
>
>Hark and ware, oh warrior!
>Wyrd of Sven now hear you.
>How good Lars he harried,
>Pestered him with questions.
>
>
>Late at meadhall light burned.
>Lars did strive to largen
>Belly with a bowl of
>Boiled fish his mission...
>
>
>And some chunks of chicken...
>And cheese, and ham, and pea soup...
>Finally pounds of pancakes
>Paired with lingen berries.
>
>
>Smallish snack he snuck while
>Woozy wife lay snoozing,
>When inside there wandered
>Forth a fellow northman.
>
>
>Lars did greet him greatly
>For he knew the gruesome
>Tales of hosts who hasten
>Traveller forth from doorstep.
>
>
>"I am Sven," he stated.
>"Sven I am," he said.
>"Do you like Lutefisk and Yams?"
>
>
>"Nay," said Lars, "though largely
>Like I food most goodly...
>I do not like Lutefisk and Yams.
>I do not like them, Sven I Am."
>
>
>"Ah," said Sven, "my friend.
>Would you eat them on a trip?
>Would you eat them on your ship?"
>
>
>"Nay," said Lars, "though largely
>Like I food most goodly...
>I do not like Lutefisk and Yams.
>I do not like them, Sven I Am."
>
>
>"Ah," said Sven, "but wait.
>Would you eat them on a raid?
>Would you eat them with a maid?"
>
>
>"Nay," said Lars most strongly,
>"Like I food most goodly, but
>I do not like Lutefisk and Yams.
>I do not like them, Sven I Am."
>
>
>"Well," said Sven, "good fellow.
>Would you eat them on the field?
>Would you eat them off your shield?"
>
>
>"Nay," said Lars most wrothly,
>"Like I food most goodly, but
>I do not like Lutefisk and Yams.
>I do not like them, Sven I Am."
>
>
>Sven then looked most crafty.
>He then slyly stated:
>"Would you eat them served up cold?
>Would you eat them if I paid you gold?"
>
>
>"Well...," said Lars, "since largely
>Like I food most goodly...
>I might like Lutefisk and Yams.
>I might like them, Sven I Am."
>
>
>Sven produced the Swedish
>Yam and Lutefisk sample.
>Lars did test this tasty
>Treat then longly pondered.
>
>
>"I... despise Lutefisk and Yams.
>I despise them, Sven I am."
>And he slew Sven.


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