In any argumentation,
there's none as unanswerable
as a smug diner's opinion.
You gush about chilled champagne,
To my unschooled taste buds,
that's simply bottled, sugared rain.
And you adore sturgeon caviar.
To my unpolished palate,
that's salty clay dipped in tar.
No debate about the agendum.
No dispute in matters of taste:
De gustibus non est disputandum!
In any argumentation,
none is as unanswerable
as every diner's opinion;
you gush about that chilled champagne,
to my uninitiated taste buds
it's but some bottled, sugared rain;
and you adore sturgeon caviar,
to my naive, unschooled palate,
a salty lump of clay with tar;
no debate in the agendum,
in matters of taste there's no dispute,
de gustibus non disputandum!
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