Where have all the vegetables gone?

[nineveh_uk]

My middle school had long assembly three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I quite enjoyed assembly, which wasn't that long even in its long format, and one got to sing. I did not, however, like all the hymns. Top of my "most hated" list was Where Have All the Flowers Gone. To this day I get irritated when hearing pre-pubescent female humans blamed for the first World War.

Nonetheless, when I opened the fridge tonight and discovered that the only green veg I possessed was a couple of leeks, I had to accept that the answer was that I had eaten them. I'm not sure how this happened, as there was a fair amount there on Saturday and I am not the sort of person who considers raw broccoli a delicious snack. But apparently it has. I don't mind leeks. Leeks are OK, particularly baked, but even raw. But I was looking for the courgette that was supposed to be in there.

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I felt the correlation implied an equivalence that I really don't see between a child who ignorantly or thoughtlessly picks too many flowers (and in any case, flowers are wiped out my industrial agriculture, building, and occasionally over-zealous collectors, not a few eight-year olds, or even fifteen-year olds) and the political and other issues behind WWI that really aren't there. If it had been "Where have all the tigers gone, big game hunters have shot them, every one" it might have been different.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

flowers are wiped out my industrial agriculture, building, and occasionally over-zealous collectors, not a few eight-year olds, or even fifteen-year olds

Methinks the lady doth protest too much - were you perchance given a traumatic earwigging for gathering bluebells one spring?