Bashful. !!

Yupâ¦.bigack is right! When I was very little we lived with my grand parents, aunt and uncle. I had a small table and chair set. The kids would have to sit at it for meals because the adults ate at the "big " table. My mother put decals on the set and the chairs had some of the seven dwarfs. We would race to the table to get our chair because no one wanted to sit in the chair with dopey on it. LOL

In elementary school I was in a play of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Apparently although the story greatly pre-dates Disney, the dwarf names are copyrighted, so the teacher producing the play came up with different names for the dwarfs all based on food items.

I was the leader of the dwarfs, named Orange Marmalade. My younger brother was the youngest, not-so-bright dwarf, named Beef Stew (or Beefy for short) Another was named Corn Fritter. I don't remember any of the others.

At one point the dwarfs were sending Beef Stew shopping and they made a song of the shopping list (I guess 'cause that's what dwarfs do) to help Beefy remember what to buy. I think it went:

Hams, clams and candied Yams
Steaks, cakes and apples baked,
A quart of Spumoni
A pound of baloney,
Snails, quails and ginger ales,
Peas, Cheese and honey from bees.
and don't forget the Ketchup ... please.

He instead returned with 7 pounds of raisins and a jellybean.

Agreeing with Bashful.

Also agreeing with Bashful

I love your story Bob!! That's hilarious that Beefy came home with things totally unrelated to what it was supposed to be.

His characters rationalization was "you eat the raisins and then drink water and they will swell up and you'll feel like you've had a big meal." To which the rest of the dwarfs replied: "We'd rather actually have a big meal."

I think shortly thereafter his character stuck his tongue out at the rest of us dwarfs, and our grandmother scolded him from the audience, saying "Joe, Don't do that. That's not nice"