Unpasteurised Mankwold…

…mentioned repeatedly, including supplying Les Soeurs Heureuses. That could be fun…

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/6/15-1603_article

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There was an outbreak of listeria in the UK which caused a right old panic. It finally drove me to verse (there is a tune too but I can’t easily do anything about that). The unfortunate newsreader who had to get through “listeria bacteria hysteria” without a blobble went to my heart.

It’s a Plant, Officer.

I have found myself a bran-new flower to nurture
Growing on the window-cill a treat
Twisting little tendrils round the kitchen furniture
Looking almost good enough to eat

I’ve got Listeria Bacteria Hysteria Wisteria
Climbing up my kitchen wall
I really think it makes a boring room look cheerier
Spreading out into the hall
They say it’s awful dangerous but I don’t care
I like to twine its pretty purple blooms in my hair
Listeria Bacteria Hysteria Wisteria
Doesn’t worry me at all, oh no,
Doesn’t bother me at all.

All the neighbours tell me that I shouldn’t care to
Give this wicked plant a place to grow
They want to feed it paraquat. They wouldn’t dare to
Over my dead body it would go

I like Listeria Bacteria Hysteria Wisteria
Climbing up my kitchen wall
I really feel that life would be a whole lot drearier
If it wasn’t in the hall.
They say that it’s a menace that I have to contain
But I am very happy just to let it remain
Listeria Bacteria Hysteria Wisteria
Doesn’t worry me at all, oh no,
Doesn’t bother me at all.

Summer 1989. (I think: just after a major Listeria scare, in any event.)

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