After doing some canning of food last couple of years, I realized there is a serious problem with one of mother goose's nursery rhymes.
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers..."
by Mother Goose
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
The problem with this rhyme is that you can't pick pickled peppers because you have to pick them before you can pickle them, and therefore, the most they could be is 'pickling peppers' because that would say they are a variety of peppers often best used for pickling. Perhaps that's why no one can find those pickled peppers that peter piper supposedly picked.
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