{"id":4265,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4265"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-good-food-tour-of-umbleania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-good-food-tour-of-umbleania\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Food Tour -of Umbleania-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Good Food Tour (of Umbleania)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn Umbleania by the Sea<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re giving cake away for free<br \/>\nSo tourists flock from all around<br \/>\nTo see what flavours can be found<\/p>\n<p>See disappointment on each face<br \/>\nThen murmurings about disgrace<br \/>\nThe local taste is rarely shared<br \/>\nBy those who visit unprepared<\/p>\n<p>No chocolate or coffee cream<br \/>\nOr honeyed hazlenut supreme<br \/>\nThose treats are not as popular<br \/>\nAs artichoke and caviare<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients Umblanians used<br \/>\nHad foreign critics quite confused<br \/>\nThe bean and toffee casserole<br \/>\nWas last described as &#8220;rather droll&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And porridge made from cabbage stalk<br \/>\nAroused a lot of worried talk<br \/>\nWith powdered yak to spread on bread<br \/>\nThe sandwich trade is almost dead<\/p>\n<p>The free cake stunt soon had to stop<br \/>\nThe cookery was not the top<br \/>\nFive Michelin stars will never be<br \/>\nIn Umbleania by the Sea<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nIf, despite these dire warnings you wish to visit Umbleania (the largest<br \/>\ntropical island North of the Arctic circle) it is as well to train your palette<br \/>\nin advance. Start with a week eating nothing but fish flakes and maple syrup,<br \/>\nthen move onto sweetened raw meat products.<br \/>\nIf you catch the daily submarine from Las Vegas you should arrive just in time<br \/>\nfor the January octopus-ink-beer festival, a treat few would want to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good Food Tour (of Umbleania) by cricketjeff on November 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In Umbleania by the Sea They&#8217;re giving cake away for free So tourists flock from all around To see what flavours can be found See disappointment on each face Then murmurings about disgrace The local taste is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7242,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4265\/revisions\/7242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}