[PW] ? poem- "children should be boiled in oil" ?

[ALFRED STONE]

Surely Dahl would have advocated boiling adults in oil. Children were always the winners in his stories and adults often came to a sticky end.

Alf

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 I have no proof or knowledge that it's the case, but it sounds like something Roald Dahl would write!
 
 Mark
 
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 Our patron is trying to find the title and author of a short poem that
 contains a line "children should be boiled in oil".
 Could anyone help? Thanks.
 
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