Today’spoem

GREAT BRITAIN

Cornish pasties, Devon cream, Yorkshire pudding, Suffolk bream, Scottish whisky, Cheddar cheese, Lancashire hotpot, Earl Grey teas. West Country scrumpy, shepherd’s pie, Blackberry crumble, Drambuie from Skye. Cumberland sausages, Dover sole, Bakewell tarts, toad-in-the-hole, Welsh Bara Brith, English booze, Scottish smokies, Irish stews. Whitby crab, Lamberhurst wine, Kate and Sydney — cockney rhyme. Hereford cider, Worcester sauce, Fish and chips — Ramsden’s of course. Ploughman’s lunch, a pair of kippers, Mussels, cockles, whelks, crab’s nippers. Eat it once, forever smitten, It’s the food methinks puts Great in Britain.