THE COOK WHO DOESN'T LIKE PEAS
The fun of this game depends on a fair proportion of the players not
being acquainted with it. The leader begins, addressing the first
player, "I have a cook who doesn't like peas (p's); what will you give
her for dinner?" The person addressed, if acquainted with the secret,
avoids the letter p in his answer, and, for example, says, "I will
give her some walnuts." The question is then asked of the second person,
who, if unacquainted with the trick, is likely enough to offer some
delicacy which contains the letter p; e.g., potatoes, asparagus, pork,
apple-pie, pickled cabbage, peanuts, etc., etc. When this occurs, the
offender is called upon to pay a forfeit, but the precise nature of
his offense is not explained to him. He is simply told, in answer to
his expostulations, that "the cook doesn't like p's." When a sufficient
number of forfeits has been extracted, the secret is revealed, and
those who have not already guessed it, are teased by being told (over
and over again) that the cook did not like p's, and if they would
persist in giving them to her, they must, of course, take the
consequences.
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