If you should ask for anchovies <br />on pizza you should know <br />that though they add much zest to cheese <br />and flavor to the dough <br />once they've been pickled in a cask <br />where they are tightly packed <br />that they derive their name from Basque, <br />perhaps a useless fact. <br /> <br /> <br />According to Margalit Fox, who says that the Oxford English Dictionary will be on the Web at the end of 1999 ('The O.E.D. Adds the Web to its Lexicon: Putting the Dictionary on Line Means Taking a Modern Approach to a Century of Tradition, ' in the Circuits section of The New York Times,11/5/98) , anchovy, jai alai and jingo all have Basque roots. Jingo may come from a Basque word meaning God and was first used by magicians around 1670, according to my O.E.D. chaparral is also Basque. <br /> <br />On May 31,2006 Anna Russell responded to this poem thus: <br /> <br />Response from This Veggie <br /> <br />Before you ask for anchovies <br />there's one thing you should know <br />they once had mums and daddies, <br />their corpse is in your dough. <br /> <br />11/5/98 <br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/anchovies/
