Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 31, 1991
December 30, 1991
January 01, 1992
Transcript:
Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, baker man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can... Roll it, shape it and mark it with a Z, and put it in the oven for Zoe and me! Cake again? We need to find Zoe a new favorite nursery rhyme.
windjammers 3 months ago
Oh, do you know the Muffin Man?The Muffin Man, the Muffin man?Oh, do you know the Muffin ManWho lives on Drury Lane?
windjammers 3 months ago
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn’t keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well.
windjammers 3 months ago
Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean. And so between them both, you see, They licked the platter clean.
windjammers about 2 months ago
Back during medieval times and even later, people didn’t have ovens. There would be a community oven where you could have your bread baked. People would “mark” their bread so they would know which one was theirs when they came back to get it. That’s where that verse in the rhyme comes from.