I Do Not Like Them Sam-I-Am

10 June 2017

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss was another book I loved. That man was a genius . . . with his highly imaginative rhymes and colorful illustrations . . . loved by children around the world!

I always wanted to sample green eggs and ham . . . never understood the Cat in the Hat's aversion to them. Okay, maybe not the ham, that's a little disgusting, but green eggs would be kind of cool.

My sister and I were also Girl Scouts back in the day . . . when we lived in Spain. Girl Scouts wore green uniforms.

During the summer, we got to go to a Girl Scout day camp . . . Camp Columbus . . . where we learned all sorts of skills . . . like cooking on a homemade grill created from a coffee can!

How are those things related? More importantly, is there a point?

Hang on . . . I'll get there!

So Mom was gone one weekend . . . bowling . . . left us alone with Dad. I write this with a smirk on my face because the few times Mom left us alone with Dad were the times we got away with most anything! Dads, in our time, pretty much left non-mom, non-supervised kids to their own devices.

I'm sure that Mom left him explicit instructions about food, but we weren't that hard to actually feed if there were SpaghettiOs in the house. Open the can . . . pour them into a pot on the stove (even quicker when the microwave found its way to our house) . . . heat them up . . . divide them into bowls . . . hand us spoons. We LIVED on SpaghettiOs!





I think about that now and cringe . . . 

One evening, however, Dad decided to actually fix dinner the old fashioned way . . . from scratch! Taking inspiration from Dr Seuss and the Girl Scouts, he whipped up some "Girl-Scout-camping-out-in-the-woods-at-Camp-Columbus" green hamburgers. Now green ham is one thing . . . but green hamburgers?!?!?! Looked like the hamburger meat had molded or something!

He made us EAT them!!!!!

I do hope you grow up and learn to love food in general . . . there's so much good stuff in the world!

I've read that book a million times . . . read it to my girls . . . no doubt to you as well. I never made them green eggs and ham, but then, they never asked me to. I did, however, color and cut biscuits for the holidays: blue snowflakes in January, red hearts in February, green shamrocks in March, yellow eggs in April. I've even put food dye in mashed potatoes, and made colorful deviled eggs at Easter.

"Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits."
~ Brian Tracy

You know, at the end of that book, Green Eggs and Ham, the Cat did discover he actually liked them . . .