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Brown Sauce Blues

Now I’m just a simple fellow
And what I like the most
Is a dollop of brown sauce
Spread on me breakfast toast.
You can keep your marmalades
Jams and your various spreads
Just give me  a  bottle of HP sauce
Cos I’d rather have that instead
Not served in a plastic bottle cos
At times they can suddenly spurt
And before you really know it
You have sauce all over your shirt.

No, served  from a glass bottle 
It flows in a steady  stream
That mixes with your hot butter
To provide a culinary dream.
You can keep your haute cuisine 
Because what I enjoy the most
Is lashings of hot butter mixed with
The brown sauce  on me toast
They looked at me in horror 
Breakfasting at this posh caff
And one of them had cheek
To just stand there and laugh

And then to make doubly sure
Me and me habits weren’t seen
They went and put me table
Behind a large folding screen
I find it rather irksome that
The breakfast  for which I lust
Is regarded by so many as a 
Habit of loathsome disgust.
No, I’m just a simple fellow
And what I like the most
Is a dollop of brown sauce
Spread on me breakfast toast.

Copyright © Terry Ireland | Year Posted 2023

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Speaks Volumes Date: 11/17/2023 2:06:00 AM I use HP sauce in every stew I make. The one I buy is always in a glass bottle, and I've always been perplexed to know, why they call the flavourful sauce after the Houses of Parliament ? I am going right now to make some hot buttered toast and wage an experiment. Loved your poem, lets see if I love your suggestion for breakfast ! Login to Reply Terry Ireland Date: 11/17/2023 8:04:00 AM Nit just breakfast Wen - an anytime 0f the day snack - hope you enjoyed

Deb M Date: 10/19/2023 1:49:00 PM Ewww not my cup of tea Terry….but each to their own! Fun poem….Debx Login to Reply Terry Ireland Date: 10/29/2023 1:10:00 AM To dismiss Brown Sauce Toast with our first trying is ti deny yourself a possible gastronomic treat Deb.

Ilene Bauer Date: 10/6/2023 11:43:00 AM Doesn’t sound like my kind of breakfast, Terry, but I loved reading about your devotion to it and other people’s reactions… Login to Reply Terry Ireland Date: 10/10/2023 12:39:00 AM Thanks ilene - give it a try and see what you think.

Jim Slaughter Date: 10/6/2023 10:30:00 AM Well Terry, "chacun à son gout", or so say les Français, as well as a few other Brits, I should imagine. A very amusing read, nonetheless...although I'll stick with my jams and jellies for breakfast, thank you very much. Login to Reply Terry Ireland Date: 10/10/2023 12:39:00 AM The French are pretty good with these things are't they Jim. Just basic comfort food, worth a try just for the heck of it.