Low GI Bread, poet unknown.

'Low GI Bread'

Down at the bakers, I’ve heard it’s been said,

There’s an excellent special offer on of Low GI bread.

So I put on my coat and set off down the road

For something to lower my glycaemic load.

And there in the window in prominent view

Was a sign confirming what I’d been told was true:

‘Live your life healthy, for you’re a long time dead –

Come in and sample our Low GI bread!’

The devil inside me said ‘I wonder if they know?

They say ‘Low GI’, but what makes it so?’

So I questioned the counter girl, would she comply?

She looked somewhat puzzled, then gave this reply…

‘Well, the ‘Low’ means there’s less, and the ‘I’ means ‘Inside’,

But as for the ‘G’, I can’t decide…

Could it be Garlic or Ginger or Goat?

Or (scraping the barrel!) a Gloucestershire stoat?’

‘Or Gherkins or Grapefruit, or maybe Goose fat?’

I suggested ‘Glycaemic?’ – ‘No, I don’t think it’s that –

Gammon? Or Gumbo? Or Guava? Or Gin?’

(She was beginning to wish that I hadn’t come in!)

Then a lady beside me said ‘Why would I pay more

For bread that has less of what went in before?’

That caused the girl’s listing of ‘G’ things to stop,

So we both turned around briskly and vacated the shop!