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[nverland]

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

Origin?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century.[1] The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person.[3] The riddle may depend on the assumption that, whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be.[1] The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known.[1] Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as "Boule Boule" in French, or "Lille Trille" in Swedish and Norwegian; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.[1]

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[nverland]

Zucchini Squash Creole

INGREDIENTS

4-6 small zucchini, sliced and placed in well-greased baking dish
3 tablespoons butter or bacon grease-melted
3 tablespoons flour
3 large tomatoes (or 2 cups canned tomatoes) peeled and chopped
1 small green pepper-chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 bayleaf (remove before baking)
Pinch of ground clove
1 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONS

Cook all ingredients except for zucchini and Parmesan cheese for 5 minutes over medium-high heat. Pour over zucchini and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.