Re: Ancient recipe...

From: Adrian Cope (elders@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Date: Fri Jan 03 1997 - 07:30:15 PST


>Hi all,
>
>It was Isaw, (sp) who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.
>
>Ann P.
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> >======================================================
>>
Thanks for that, Ann !
I think his name was Esau

I vaguely remember a schoolboy rhyme which started :
"I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw..............."
Can anybody complete this ???

Incidentally,  the only difference between the modern pottage, 'Scouse' and
Irish Stew is that a Liverpudlian will have stolen all the meat out of
it...............


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