Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking, alt.folklore.urban
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1995/04/18
Subject: Re: SWANS ARE PROTECTED HERE

Carl Zetie <cze...@uk.oracle.com> writes:

> I (mis)spent my undergraduate years at Peterhouse and
> don't recall ever seeing swan on the menu....

It's hard to believe it hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet, but
consider the last line of the limerick:

  The swans is reserved for the dons.

which explains your observation, or lack thereof.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil