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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Odd. I assumed, actually ...

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

... that WHATFG was simply what happened when a Yank hippie tried and failed to cover 'The Floo'ers o' the Forest'; but then, I avoided the entire mess by being (a) rather older than you and (b) having gone to a different school.

Apropos des leeks, you are aware that the Hairy Bikers are back, of course?

Re: Odd. I assumed, actually ...

[wren-chan.livejournal.com]

Completely tangential Oh hai glad to see you! glomp goes here. XD

Because I haven't done anything in this thread but lurk and be amused...

ETA: *to switch to the icon wemyss was once so fond of*

Hullo hullo 'ullo.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

A favourite icon, that.

Re: Hullo hullo 'ullo.

[wren-chan.livejournal.com]

It IS rather fit, isn't it *grin*

Certainly more pleasant to contemplate than dire hymns.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Of which there are far too many, I see.

Re: Odd. I assumed, actually ...

[tree_and_leaf]

I don't think we ever had to sing WHATFG (though we did get "Last night I dreamed the strangest dream", where I lost my Liberal Pacifist credentials for ever by thinking it sounded like a shame to burn all the pretty uniforms), but I have an abiding memory of an earnest teacher explaining that "To a Daisy" told us how it was Evil to pick flowers because it killed them and, by extension, the planet.

Even at the age of seven, I could see that (a) this was an interpretation of the poem that didn't have much to do with what the poet actually sang, and that (b) picking the odd daisy doesn't kill the plant, unless you actually rip it out by the roots and (c) the environment had bigger problems than my daisy chains.

Re: Odd. I assumed, actually ...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

We had LNIDTSD too - I'd forgotten about it, but now it is all coming back. I didn't mind that one, because the tune was pretty.

The people who really annoy me are the "domestic cats are making songbirds extinct" crowd. No, domestic cats are an additional pressure on birds that we have put much, much bigger pressure on.