Table Talk.

Thames Star, Volume XXXX, Issue 10500, 22 November 1902, Page 4

Table Talk.

! Our vulgar sires decided To take in calm, content The) goods tli© gods provided, Whenever they were sent ; Their bourgeois tastes and sober , Were grateful for the boom ' Of peaches: im. October AJid strawberries, in June. But now we think it treason To all good sense and reason ; To owlu «v taste . That's so .; And eat a thing in season. Wl)en every JcosterTs barrow With strawberries is spread, Audi every alley narrow With strawberries is red, ■ : It must in reason; follow , ■ : ; That self-respecting mem Wbuldl rather die than swallow : Your vulgar favorite then. [ But when the skies are snowing, When prices'.all'.increase*, Amd strawberries are going At half-ar-crown apiece, , Then one, without forsaking One's self-respect, might dream Of possibly partaking Of strawberries and cream. You offer- us green peais from Your Surrey farms in vain; We only look at" these from . The "middle zones" of Spain : Spring duckling in November We reokoni at its prime, With lamb about December, And trout at Ohlristmas-time In 'short, we hold it treason. To ■ ail! good setose and reason : To' dare to wish For any dish That is not out of season.' —Punch.