*97 Milk Glorious Milk Poem by Juan Caballero

MILK - One of God's precious gifts
For all who seek to live
Ofall the food that passes our lips
Milk has the most to give.
And when we from our Mothers feed
Her milk provides our every need.

The milk of cows and goats and sheep
Sustains us in our later life
An elixir before we sleep
It calms our nerves ans eases strife.
What is the secret of this stuff
Milkaholics - just can't get enuff! ! !

We know that milk is mostly water
There's almost eighty-eight percent
There's protein - fat and carbohydrate
And calcium to give bones strength.
Drinka - Pinta - Milka - Day
Its sure will help you on your way.

Full-fat milk makes ladies fertile
And it tastes much nicer too
Leave the skimmed milk for the slimmers
While you enjoy your creamy goo.
Jersey Milk has FIVE POINT THREE
Fresian only THREE POINT SIX - Oh dear me! ! ! ! ! ! !

Milk is a source of vitamins
A and D and E and K
Lactose gives our milk its sweetness
Drinka - pinta - Milka - Day
Drinking milk - instead of coffee
Keeps you sweet and much less stroppy.

Natural milk is prone to curdle
So we have to Pasteurise
Killing all the dee-dim-durdle
Homogenise and Sterilise.
When in 'The Country' it's my vow
To drink my milk straight from the cow! ! !

Milk provide s a range of products
Cream - Butter - Cheese and Youghurt too
Without which life would be much blander
No Camambert or Danish Blue.
When we our palates we would please
We judge a Country by its cheese.

I sing the preaise of English Cheeses
Cheddar - Cheshire - Wenslydale
Lancashire and Regal Stilton
Form pastures lush in Leicester Vale.
Christmastime with Port & Stilton
In Terraced House or at the Hilton.

This 'Ode to Milk' is not complete
Without a mention of 'Best Butter'
'Farmhouse' form the pastures sweet
The taste? - 'A Pastoral Ode by Rutter'
And never let me utter words obscene
Unsaturated fats - and tasteless Margarine! ! ! ! !

(Juan Caballero - March 2010)