The King’s Kiwi Buffet – Non-Entry.
To start the meal off really well, let’s have Bluff oysters raw-on-shell
completely steeped in vinegar (a mere half-dozen won’t go far!)
Chicken and sharks-fin soup to follow will start to fill the deepest hollow
and if you want a second lot, make sure you get it while it’s hot.
For a most delectable entrée, cooked tails of crayfish au mornay
with Fiddler’s Green Sauvignon Blanc for those who like a glass of plonk.
Next comes the Kiwis’ famed main course: hot carved roast lamb with thick mint sauce,
green peas, roast spuds and kumara, boiled cabbage, rich brown gravy, Ahh!!
All that’s washed down with Chardonnay from Marlborough’s famous Cloudy Bay
and, when the great main course is over, bring on the ice-cream and Pavlova!!
For after-dinner, if you please, we’ve crackers, grapes and blue-vein cheese.
A cuppa tea or coffee Sir? Cointreau or Drambuie liqueur?
Now I was taught at home and school, never to speak when mouth is full
and so, I think there’s nothing worse than trying to eat and still converse.
It's harder still when, next to me, someone is playing with my knee.
I'm not put out I must confess. It's not the Queen, it's La Duchesse...
The King cares only how food looks. For recipes, please see the cooks.
Because he can’t abide their bitchin’, he never steps inside the kitchen.
But, from the highest to the least, he hopes you all enjoy his feast.
Hugh Wyles (R.) September 1st.2008.
Author notes
If you feel sick or slightly faint, Aesthete will handle your complaint.
Please do not bring your gripes to me ‘coz I’ll be lying down till tea.
In a list
A contest entry
- HUGUENAUTY CONTEST No #36 FOR HUGH WYLES FAVOURITES GROUP ONLY. by huguenauties.
750 points, ended September 24, 2008, 10 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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I really must not read the entries in this contest before I have dinner. Again my stomach starts to make noise and mouth gets filled with water.
Cointreau with Baileys for me please
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I feel sooo hungry just from reading that....especially the oysters. And the crayfish. And the lamb. Dang, I wish I could eat that all right now...but I'm living on campus, and they have sucky food
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A delicious banquet to grace our Huguelot tables.
Heath and I love the oysters and beer and you know what they say about them. It's true too, it does work!
We've been to some grand dinner party's at your house and know what great hosts you and Edna are and the food is always scrumptious.
Another corker poem Babe.
Love Hine
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Scrumptious!
This is a fabulous menu, Hugh! From start to finish, each course was better than the one before. The photo looks appetising too; NZ is a land of milk, honey and spring lambs! I enjoyed the last lines, as a literary dessert:
"The King cares only how food looks. For recipes, please see the cooks."
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Dear Hugh,
Ohh what a feast you've placed before us.
Except for the oysters and sharks fin, everything else looks good, especially the crayfish au mornay..YUMMY!
And the main meal
delicious.
Am looking forward to reading the entries and drool over all the fabulous food.
Love Bea
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Food is...well, it's pretty much everything. It's symbolic extremes of culture, hopes, dreams, status and prejudice...and it's tasty.
Now I am hungry...again.
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The King enjoys a bountiful buffet,
as we survey the table,
loaded with his specialties.
Do we dare slip an oyster down,
stare at the chicken-shark fin soup,
hope for a slice of the lamb,
and taste of the mint sauce and gravy?
What an introduction to Kiwi cuisine,
zestfully presented, warmed with
the King's favored wines and liqueurs!
A fine presentation, Hugh!
A superb example you set!
Aesthete
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