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

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

I think I'm relieved I only know the first two lines.

I went to a very traditional and fairly incompetent CofE primary school that had proper hymns every morning and extra long Hymn Practice every Thursday. The approach of Advent is forever associated with being forced to stand there for hours until the whole school had got the breaks right in "Lo he-ee co-o-omes with clou-ou-ouds de-e-sce-en-ding"

Courgettes are revolting. You are better off without them.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I am now earwormed with 'Lo He Comes' instead of all of the other awful things mentioned in the comments. Thank you!

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

I am glad it is good for someone. The experience put me off it for life.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I can understand that it would. Happily, none of my schools went in for anything particularly traumatic with proper hymns, except perhaps making the 6th-form altos join in the descant to the carols, although that wasn't so much traumatic as very uncomfortable and squeaky (top A after an afternoon's practice and an evening's singing in the freezing cold is definitely not within my range).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

The primary school headmistress was the wife of the CofE middle headmaster, but there's a limit to how complicated you can get with only 4 - 9 year olds. Listening to Radio 3 in a traffic jam on the M1 on the way north for Christmas last year I finally realised that the Czech carol that in English has the "We will rock you" chorus, is in fact musically rather nice when not sung in a wincing translation by a load of children.

[coughingbear]

My mind has just done a rather strange musical somersault around Queen's We Will Rock You, the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse song in Bagpuss before getting to the carol you meant.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Mine did similar!