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.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I alwas assumed it worked on a circular principle of "Where are the flowers? - Look where the girls are - Where are the girls? - Look where the men are - Where are the men? - Oh, look, that's where the flowers are (in fact, that's where everybody is, girls included)" so I never thought of the flowers as being given to the men to encourage them to fight. It was more that the men dragged everything else after them. But I think the intention was probably to evoke as many flower/war resonances as possible (rather than, pace nineveh_uk, to scold the young for profligate picking of daisies).