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What do you eat?

 

What do you eat?
 
I eat carrots, I Eat turnips, cauliflower, lettuce leaves
I eat sweetcorn, I eat parsnips, I eat sprouts and I eat peas
I eat mange tout, three, four, five, six and seven
Throw in four tomatoes and that makes eleven
 
I eat apples and bananas, grapes and pears
Seeds in seedless tangerines make me bloody swear
I eat gooseberries and raspberries, lemons and limes
I eat rhubarb and peaches, kiwis, clementines
 
I eat Aduki beans, baked beans, kidney beans tinned
Butter beans and soya beans, gotta kite, got wind
I eat gloopy, bloopy, belly beans, straight from a tin
Broad beans and narrow beans, I race runner beans and win
 
I eat V shepherds pie, V bacon, V thinly sliced ham
V turkey, V sausages, I wish they made V spam
I eat V hotdogs, V burgers, V spaghetti bolognese
V curry and V chile, V fish fingers on Fridays 
 
I eat the heart of a cabbage, potato eyes from spuds 
I eat ears of corn and the skin on rice puds
Cabbage heads, pineapple heads, I kiss and I embrace
But I don't eat anything that once had a face.
 
Ste Bee
 
  

Veggie food eat

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