Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Today is Dr. Seuss' birthday. We had a themed dinner. You know how I love a themed party! Would you like to know what we ate? Just say yes.

"Fun is Good" Milk Cow (chocolate milk)

Did you ever milk this kind of cow?
Well, we can do it. We know how.
If you never did, you should.
These things are fun and fun is good.
From One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish


Schlottz’s Knots (knotted breadsticks)

And, while we are at it, consider the Schlottz,
the Crumple-horn, Web-footed, Green-bearded Schlottz,
whose tail is entailed with un-solvable knots.
From Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


Jedd’s Bed of Shrimp (shrimp)

A Jedd is in bed,
And the bed of a Jedd
Is the softest
Of beds in the world,
It is said.
He makes it from pom poms
He grows on his head.
And he’s sleeping right now
On the softest of fluff,
Completely exhausted
From growing the stuff.
From Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book


Who Roast Beast (steak)

And he brought back the toys! And the food for the feast!
And he . . .
. . . HE HIMSELF . . . !
The Grinch carved the roast beast!
From How The Grinch Stole Christmas


Noodle-Eating-Poodle Noodles (pasta)

When a fox is
in the bottle where
the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles
in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call . . .
. . . a tweetle beetle
noodle poodle bottled
paddled muddled duddled
fuddled wuddled
fox in socks, sir!
From Fox in Socks


River of Nobsk Corn-off-the-Cobsk (corn)

I’ll go to the far-away Mountains of Tobsk
Near the River of Nobsk, and I’ll bring back an Obsk,
A sort of a kind of a Thing-a-ma-Bobsk
Who only eats rhubarb and corn-on-the-cobsk.
From If I Ran the Zoo


Grin-itch Spinach (spinach salad)

After that, a week went by.
Then one dark night in Grin-itch
(I had to do an errand there
And fetch some Grin-itch spinach) . . .
From "What Was I Scared Of?" in The Sneetches and Other Stories


Cat in the Hat Tub Cake (angel food cake with strawberries)

Do you know where I found him? You know where he was?
He was eating a cake in the tub! Yes he was!
From The Cat in the Hat Comes Back