Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2 - Prompt #435 - On The Menu

"We’re studying the menu today. Literal or slang, words can have two (or more) meanings. Today we’re doing it with food. Did you ever “butter” someone up? Do you cut the “mustard “? Have a “beef” with someone?

Think of food words in these terms, and serve your poem while it’s hot! Don’t be “chicken”!"


For their first date,
he gave her a box of dates.
He thought he was buttering
her up.  She accepted
the dates, and buttered
them.  Said she, 'I only
truly like them in date-nut
bread.  Do you have the bread
for that?'  Said he, Perhaps
you would rather have figs?'
Said she, 'I don't give a fig
about them.  I do love raw
clams, though.  He clammed up.

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