{"id":303877,"date":"2019-07-18T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=303877"},"modified":"2019-07-18T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:00:46","slug":"best-chow-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/best-chow-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Best chow yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please enjoy with your favorite beverage, cold beer, root beer, and \u201cshoot shoot, balut!\u201d
\nIced tea or fresh lemonade made in the shade, or a cold cola and you\u2019re ready to rolla,
\nhave a glass of plain water when you make it on your own or place a takeout order.<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nYou ain\u2019t Nothing But a Salad<\/strong>
\nYou ain\u2019t nothing but a green salad
\nin a bowl just a wilting all the time
\nwe gotta eat you fresh and quickly
\nsome olive oil and apple cider vinegar
\nsqueeze on a little lemon and lime
\ntuna, macaroni, or German potato
\nsome need mayo some no tomato
\nItalian, Ranch or blue cheese dressing
\nif no time for all that homemade messing
\nmac and cheese made with elbow macaroni
\na grilled cheese sandwich fried with baloney
\nlove my Caesar salad apple walnut Waldorf
\nadd cabbage and into a buffet it will morph
\nsalad tomorrow is fresh local fruit. shoot!
\n\u00a0
\nYou ain\u2019t Nothing But a Pizza<\/strong>
\nYou ain\u2019t nothing but a pizza baking in a pan
\nyou ain\u2019t nothing but pizzas just bakin in pans
\ntaste good so I want a large slice in both my hands
\nyou might be pepperoni mushroom maybe plain cheese
\nyou might be thick or thin crust, ham, pineapple Hawaiian
\nyou might be a supreme with any kind of meat you please
\nyou might be vegetarian or a combination to keep trying
\nas you know though you gotta start with some dough
\nand usually some kind of tomato or marinara sauce
\nsome cheeses mozzarella and parmesan is one way to go
\nchopped olives onions peppers and spread them across
\nbake till all those toppings and cheeses turn gold and bubbly
\nI\u2019ll keep making baking eating pizza on that you can trust
\neven when I\u2019m old toothless gray and can\u2019t chew the crust.
\n\u00a0
\nYou ain\u2019t Nothing But a Hotdog<\/strong>
\nYou ain\u2019t nothing but a hotdog and a bun
\nchowin down just a going down my throat
\nyou ain\u2019t nothing but three big chili dogs
\nguarantee gonna make my stomach bloat
\nsome say you are a high-class Viennese sausage cat
\na plump Polish sausage cousin or some spicy hot Italian
\nbut you just a Texas hot skinny wiener dog or fat
\non top I want mustard chopped onions or scallions
\ngotta have you any way boiled steamed or fried
\ngotta have at least two or three of you going inside
\ngotta have you at the ballpark BBQ or nearest beach
\njust gotta have you and your soft buns in my reach
\nyou ain\u2019t nothing but a hotdog with yellow mustard
\nfinish you off with some soft vanilla ice cream custard.
\n\u00a0
\nYou ain\u2019t Nothing But a Hamburg<\/strong>
\n(Fourth in this quartet was published in the Saipan Tribune on July 4, 2019.)<\/p>\n

Casserole Dishes Wants and Wishes<\/strong>
\nShall we begin with some macaroni memories
\noven baked delicious dishes made with relative ease
\nand no boxes of prepared mixes if you please or
\nersatz cheese tubes of yellow goop you squeeze
\nmany different casseroles are high in calories
\ntry Italian pastas, potato, vegetable, and frijoles
\nBoston baked beans with molasses and ham appease
\nmost every appetite of hungry groups of hes and shes
\nscalloped potatoes and sausage gone none left to freeze
\nhow about baked lasagna or pepper and sausage zitis
\nelbow macaroni and cheese cream chipped beef and peas
\ntry all these casseroles whatever your appetite wishes
\nbake some today and forget about washing the dishes
\ngive thanks you didn\u2019t forget simple beans and franks.<\/p>\n

Joey ‘Pepe Batbon’ Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong>
\nJoey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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