<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508188" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Epicure</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should you preserve white mice in honey<br>Don't use imported ones from China,<br>For though they cost you less in money<br>You'll find the Japanese ones finer.<br>But if Chinese, stuff them with spice,<br>Which certainly improves their savour,<br>And though the Canton mice are nice,<br>The Pekinese have finer flavour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you should pickle bracken shoots<br>The way the wily Japanese do,<br>Be sure to pluck then young - what suits<br>Our Eastern taste may fail to please you.<br>And as for nettles, cook them well;<br>To eat them raw may give you skin-itch;<br>But if you boil them for a spell<br>They taste almost as good as spinach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Reader, if you chance to be<br>Of Oriental food a lover,<br>And care to share a meal with me,<br>I'll add the addled eggs of plover;<br>And gaily I will welcome you<br>To lunch within an arbour sunny,<br>On nettle broth and bracken stew.<br>And nice white mice, conserved in honey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508188" data-title="An Epicure de Robert William Service" data-description="Should you preserve white mice in honey Don't use imported ones from China, For though they cost you less in money You'll find the Japanese ones finer. But if Chinese, stuff them with spice, Which certainly improves their savour, And though the Ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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