they found a downtown Phoenix deli

with online reviews proclaiming it the best,

for specialty goodies like Swedish fish so smelly.

Till Christmas they put off the Lutefisk and headcheese

but saw windmill blades blowing a zephyr breeze.

Yes, they found a box of cookies baked by the Dutch.

They paid and said, “Thank you so much,”

and tack sa mycket in Swedish and eet smakelijk (bon

appetite) in Dutch.

In the car, the passenger so eager, tore the box with

her bare hands,

and they both partook of the contents made in

Ooltgensplaat, the Netherlands.

The driver was of Swedish and Dutch tribes

and his wife of German and Irish descent

but both agreed it was a few U.S. dollars

very well spent.